Monsters We Trust with Our Lives

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0:00 Monsters We Trust
0:58 Can Animals Think?
2:26 I Want a Dragon
4:13 The Folly of Man
6:23 Seven Million Languages
7:58 The Smartest Animal Ever Studied
9:38 Trained vs. Tamed
11:21 The Problem of Mutual Survival
13:15 My Enemy, Horses
14:15 The Greatest Virtual Creature?
15:58 The Ambiguous Personhood of Yoshi
18:00 Primal
21:20 What Species is Ruling Earth After Us?

Media Shown: Primal, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, How to Train Your Dragon, Ark: Survival Evolved, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Dominion, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Samurai Jack, Nope, Life of Pi, The Last Guardian, 300, Wrath of the Titans, 10,000 BC, The Rescuers Down Under, World of Warcraft, Roar, Bedtime for Bonzo, Call of the Wild, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, Red Dead Redemption 2, Super Mario World, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario and Sonic, Mario Tennis Aces, Alpha, Additional Last Guardian Footage from SourceSpy91

♫ Music Used – Historical Moments (Epidemic Sound), Delfino Plaza (Mario), Vorte Toast (Bizet), Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven), Skullcrusher (Assassin’s Creed), Sky Above, Voice Within (Skyrim), Jarls, Karls, and Thralls (Assassin’s Creed), The Trade Parade (RuneScape), A Plague Tale (A Plague Tale), Around the Fire (Skyrim), Together Forever (A Plague Tale), Quiet and Falling (Celeste), The New Century (Amnesia)

♫ Additional music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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