GROWING UP ANIMAL is a documentary show about the family cycles of animals in the wild. In one episode, a female bear named Fern, for instance, is busy hunting enough salmon to sustain her as a pregnant mama in the hibernation months to come. The viewer sees the bears developing in vitro, their umbilical cords pumping blood and nutrients to their bodies. When her babies are born during the months she's hibernating, they nurse and are sustained while she continues to sleep. Upon waking, Fern and her two cubs must go into the wild to find food and enough safe territory for the cubs to grow. This is the theme that runs throughout these episodes: pregnancy, embryonic development, birth, growth, care, survival, and relationship. Animals are not so different from humans after all.
