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Really Wild Animals

Really Wild Animals is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Really Wild Animals rather than just read about it. In short: Really Wild Animals is an American direct-to-video children's nature television series, hosted by Dudley Moore as Spin, an anthropomorphic globe. Comprising 13 episodes, it was released between March 2, 1994 and October 21, 1997.

Key takeaways

Really Wild Animals belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Really Wild Animals to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Really Wild Animals from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Really Wild Animals is an American direct-to-video children's nature television series, hosted by Dudley Moore as Spin, an anthropomorphic globe. Comprising 13 episodes, it was released between March 2, 1994 and October 21, 1997. It was nominated for five national Daytime Emmy Awards and won one. Released by the National Geographic Society, the series educates children about many different species of animals. It goes to every continent, describing the wildlife on each one and also focuses on one specific group of animals, such as dogs, cats, endangered animals, and animals from Asia, North America, the Tropical Rainforests of Central and South America, the world's four great Oceans, the Australian Outback and the African Savanna. Songs were written, produced, and mostly performed by Alan O'Day and Janis Liebhart. At the end of each episode, Spin says, "But (you know), there are lots more Really Wild Animals all across this wonderful world of ours, so be sure to join me on our next (exciting) adventure. Until then, this is your pal Spin. Spin ya later!".

Episodes The series was originally released on VHS, and on August 2, 2005, National Geographic began releasing the series' episodes on DVD.

Television broadcast On February 18, 1995, Really Wild Animals was announced to be part of CBS' Saturday morning schedule for that fall. The series made its television premiere on CBS on September 16 at 12:30PM Eastern. CBS aired each of the first seven episodes in two half-hour parts. These episodes were rerun on the Disney Channel from January 5 to October 19, 1997. All episodes were shown on WAM! America's Kidz Network from 1999 to 2001.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Really Wild Animals

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Really Wild Animals claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Really Wild Animals before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Really Wild Animals ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Really Wild Animals

In research: Really Wild Animals appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Really Wild Animals in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Really Wild Animals is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1990s American children's television series, 1990s American documentary television series, 1994 American television series debuts, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Really Wild Animals outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Really Wild Animals in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Really Wild Animals means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Really Wild Animals out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Really Wild Animals in simple terms?

Why does Really Wild Animals matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Really Wild Animals?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Really Wild Animals.