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Why are only popular animals shown in most wildlife documentaries?
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July 16th, 2011
When we watch Animal Planet or NatGeoWild it’s clear that most animals shown there are lions, Nile crocodiles, wolves, Great Whites, chimpanzees, or other popular wild animals.
They will less likely to show documentaries about rare, uncommon, unpopular, or even elusive animals such as snow leopard, okapis, caracal, red panda, etc.
I know it may requires different difficulties for each creature but it’s ridiculous if they can occasionally film the popular hump-back whales but not the blue whales, of the same depth of ocean. If they can exclusively film African scarabs but not African pearl quails, of the same land.
What makes them choose one creature over the others and tend to show only the most popular ones?
Don’t they think that those who watch their channels might get bored for their monotonous shows?
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