TED Talks

Jon Mooallem: The strange story of the teddy bear, and what it reveals about our relationship to animals (2014x105)

Fecha de emisión: May 27, 2014

In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt legendarily spared the life of a black bear — and prompted a plush toy craze for so-called "teddy bears." Writer Jon Mooallem digs into this toy story and asks us to consider how the tales we tell about wild animals have real consequences for a species' chance of survival — and the natural world at large.