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TELLY bosses are being urged to ban wildlife shows on the grounds they breach animals? rights to privacy.
Lecturer Brett Mills says critters should be able to go about their business away from the spotlight.
And cameras should not pry into the intimate moments when they die, mate or give birth.
Dr Mills, 38, who teaches film and television studies at the University of East Anglia, became concerned after watching BBC wildlife series Nature?s Great Events, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, 83.
it included shots from pin-hole cameras in birds? nests, which Dr Mills compares with ?Big Brother-style? surveillance.
He said: ?Nests are a private space and to stick cameras inside is a form of CCTV.
?It might seem odd to claim that animals might have a right to privacy as we can never really know if they are giving consent. But they often do engage in forms of behaviour which suggest they?d rather not encounter humans.
?Wildlife documentaries are concerned with how animals should be filmed but they never seem to ask whether animals should be filmed at all.?
Piers Warren, 49, of the International School of Wildlife Film-makers, described Dr Mills? remarks as ?rubbish?.
He added: ?How can you say whether an animal wants to be filmed? They don?t understand the concept.?
A spokesman for People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said: ?If the animals aren?t distressed when they?re being filmed, we say: ?No harm, no foul.? ?
TELLY bosses are being urged to ban wildlife shows on the grounds they breach animals? rights to privacy.
Lecturer Brett Mills says critters should be able to go about their business away from the spotlight.
And cameras should not pry into the intimate moments when they die, mate or give birth.
Dr Mills, 38, who teaches film and television studies at the University of East Anglia, became concerned after watching BBC wildlife series Nature?s Great Events, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, 83.
it included shots from pin-hole cameras in birds? nests, which Dr Mills compares with ?Big Brother-style? surveillance.
He said: ?Nests are a private space and to stick cameras inside is a form of CCTV.
?It might seem odd to claim that animals might have a right to privacy as we can never really know if they are giving consent. But they often do engage in forms of behaviour which suggest they?d rather not encounter humans.
?Wildlife documentaries are concerned with how animals should be filmed but they never seem to ask whether animals should be filmed at all.?
Piers Warren, 49, of the International School of Wildlife Film-makers, described Dr Mills? remarks as ?rubbish?.
He added: ?How can you say whether an animal wants to be filmed? They don?t understand the concept.?
A spokesman for People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said: ?If the animals aren?t distressed when they?re being filmed, we say: ?No harm, no foul.? ?
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