What wisdom lies hidden in a world we've just begun to fathom?
In every corner of the earth, lessons are being learned from unlikely teachers.
Every single animal has touched my life in a very special way.
I mean, you're learning all the time with every single animal, and you learn something
new.
From the plains of Kenya to the Colorado prairies, lives are being transformed.
I should not be alive today.
It's only by the grace of God and the horses that I'm still here.
In ways we don't yet understand, animals can awaken even the most distant soul.
The smallest of creatures can ignite the imagination and cause our spirits to soar.
Even those we thought we knew so well are still offering surprising insights.
They have provided us with so much in this world, so much knowledge.
Beyond our human boundaries, there's an uncharted land.
In it lies the legacy of every living creature, an ancient understanding still waiting to
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Hidden in the remote mountain forest of Tanzania, there is a magical world.
A world where creature and human share an ancient alliance.
Here the medicine men know how to read their forest, like a book.
By watching the creatures around them, they have learned to heal their own people.
They have found cures for everything from headache to arthritis.
Their knowledge of remedies reaches deep into the jungle and deep into their past.
For as long as the Watangwe people have walked the earth, they have observed wild animals
using the medicines of the forest.
We've known that a sick chimpanzee might know where to find a cure that could heal their
own people.
These observations from the past provide a wealth of knowledge still used today.
Mohammadi Seifu Kalunde comes from a long line of traditional healers.
A game officer in Mahali Mountains National Park, he is teaching the wisdom of his ancestors
to a modern medicine man.
His colleague, Dr. Michael Huffman, is a world renowned scientist, a trailblazer in a new
field of research.
Here at Mahali, Mohammadi and the chimpanzees themselves are my teachers, my instructors.
We started out just following the chimpanzees, trying to figure out what the chimpanzees
are doing when they're sick, how they heal themselves, and what we can learn from them,
what kinds of plants they're using, the ways they're using the plants, in hopes that we
too can use this to better the lives of people.
For over a decade, Michael and Mohammadi have been tracking the same group of chimpanzees
deep within a 70 square mile expanse of forest.
Chimpanzees are ideal models.
Like humans, they're vulnerable to malaria, arthritis, even polio.
But in his search for new medicines, Michael knows he's working against the clock.
This is one of the last places where the chimpanzee is safely protected, and they still have so
much to learn.
To wake up one day and see that all of this is gone would be like throwing away the last
medical textbook.
With Mohammadi as his guide, 15 years ago Michael found a clue he's been following
ever since.
They observed a sick chimpanzee eating the tender shoots of a tree to cure herself of
parasites.
Lab reports confirmed the tree had acted as a remedy.
The chimpanzee had led Michael to the discovery of 13 entirely new compounds.
Compounds with anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, and anti-parasitic properties.
It was a discovery that could have astounding consequences for the human race.
More than half the world's population suffers from parasitic diseases, and the symptoms
can be fatal.
This is what they were eating.
It's the first medicinal plant that I found chimpanzees using.
But when Mohammadi and I first saw the first incidents, it was Mohammadi that told me that
when his people are sick, showing upset stomach diarrhea, things like that, that they also
use this plant, and it's a very important plant.
It's amazing that humans and chimpanzees are using the same plant for the same thing.
As a scientist, I'd like to think that I'm covering new ground, but in actuality I'm
retracing the footsteps of a very ancient civilization, both human and animal.
Within the tropical forest is a medicine cabinet waiting to be opened.
In its archives are drugs like quinine, heart medications, and possible cures for cancer.
By unlocking the wisdom of generations past, Michael hopes to secure a future for generations
to come.
The observations that I made about 15 years ago of a chimpanzee using leaves to medicate
yourself sparked an idea to try and combine the wisdom of chimpanzees with the methodology
of science so the cure will last forever.
If I can do that, I'll be a happy man.
Working in the footsteps of medicine men before him, Michael Hoffman continues his quest.
While half a world away, a very different sort of healing is taking place.
For the horses, I'd be in one of three places, I'd be in jail, I'd be in an institution,
or I'd be in my grave.
The horses, they give me something to care about.
Even when I was down and I didn't even care about myself, you know, now I have something
to care about, and now I have something that I know cares about me inside that just feels
really good.
I didn't know how to care for things.
Me and my mother was having a hard time, me and my friends, everything, I didn't care
about anything.
I just didn't care.
If it wasn't for these horses, I'd be on the street because my family didn't want me.
So that's how it changed my life.
On a ranch in eastern Colorado, young boys are mending their shattered pasts in the company
of horses.
The Colorado Boys Ranch is a non-profit treatment program for neglected and emotionally disturbed
boys from across the nation.
Some have been placed by the judicial system as a last resort.
Here they're given another chance.
Director of the horsemanship program, Jim Kern, has seen some remarkable transformations.
Most of these kids didn't have somebody there every morning that fed them breakfast, took
care of them, got them off to school, whatever, you know.
These horses grow to know that these boys are going to be here every morning, they're
going to feed them, they're going to take care of them.
The kids turn that all back too and say, hey, guess what?
You know, they take care of me in a multiple of ways too.
So we feel there's a lot of emotional healing that takes place.
Here at the ranch, the lessons learned outside the classroom are often the most profound.
Horses can do things for these boys that you and I can't.
Most of these kids look at adults and are very untrusting.
They feel let down.
If you tell them you're going to be there, you better be there.
These horses are always there, and they take care of these kids.
Go easy, Sean.
Don't hurry him until you warm him up.
Those kids have to learn to share control with this 1,100 pound animal out there on
the mesa, and most of these horses will babysit and take care of them in a way that you wouldn't
believe.
Like the horses, each boy at the ranch is learning his own special lesson.
For 17-year-old Thurman, it's a lesson in family.
The boys get to be an active part of the foaling process and see the nurturing and the love
that the mothers can give to their young ones.
You know, a lot of these kids have never had that.
So we try to help these kids understand what family life should be, what sharing should
be, what caring should be.
The animals do it themselves in getting going.
Yeah, when you're working with young horses, Thurman, you have to be patient and take your
time.
They'll learn to believe and trust in you.
See if you'll follow.
Come on.
See if you'll follow mama.
Come on.
We've done this before.
We associate the pull coming from you, the pressures coming from behind.
It's a gentle and easy way to make the pressure come from somewhere besides you pulling on
their heads.
They don't associate that with you.
We do the same thing in treatment with the boys.
We let them make the decisions with our guidance and our structure, but they're doing it.
You know, in the same way here, we're not pulling on the head of that call.
See, if you start pulling on it, that's what you get.
They'll run backwards.
They'll leave you.
You do what we've done with the rope, you're pulling down below.
You're not pulling on his head.
The pressure's coming from somewhere else and he'll follow you.
After years on the streets, 16-year-old George has begun to turn his life around, thanks
in large to a champion show horse.
His name is Austintacious.
He's a great big massive quarter horse with this humongous personality.
Can bring back a feeling in a person that disappeared long since.
My sisters were always mad at me, and in turn, I was always mad at my baby brother, you know,
because I didn't know anything else except anger, and then finally I gave up.
I was by myself.
I was on the street a lot.
I was in jail, doing no good to myself, no good to other people.
I owe everything to the horses.
You know, I mean, they'll sit and they'll listen to you, you know, they'll kind of nuzzle
you with their nose, or they'll let you know it's okay and that you're going to pull through,
and I've needed that and I've gotten it.
It's just a wonderful feeling to be here and to finally know love, because a horse isn't
going to let you down.
You know, he'll be your friend through the thick and the thin.
Come on, get off the hose you nuthead, come on, oh, there you go, stay there.
A creature this size, I mean, he knows he can just trample me.
I believe he knows he can, and to know that he's not only means that he must trust me,
and that's kind of special, because not too many people in the past have trusted me.
With ostentatious, George has been challenged to reach beyond his past.
For six months, he's been showing the champion at competitions around the state.
Tomorrow, they'll be in Pueblo.
Getting ready, it's really nerve wracking sometimes, and it's kind of like, hurry up
and wait, and that really gets your nerves wracking, and then when you wait, you can't
help but think.
Since I've been here, Jim, he's been like a father to me.
He doesn't let me stray too far from the path.
Scream.
Scream?
I was going to ask for forgiveness.
Oh, I'll give you that too.
Can I have that?
That's all I need, they're on the mares already.
Did you comb it this morning?
Yeah.
Holy moly.
I'd be hurting me too.
Let's see.
You feel good.
Not so nervous right now.
What'd you get there, Dan?
Nice little grin, nice little smile.
They see that.
They like that.
Okay.
With Ostentatious by his side, George will face the judges, but for George, there are
far more important challenges ahead.
Here at the boys' ranch, lessons learned from horses are helping young men rise beyond
the wounds of childhood.
With their gentle persistence, the horses are leading these boys to a second chance.
The horses showed me how to love.
It's kind of like parenthood.
I don't have a boy.
Every time I care for my baby and every time I love my baby, I think about how I love the
animals.
The horses at the ranch, they showed a great deal of patience, and I guess that's what
I needed.
The way they don't give up is like, it helps me to learn more about myself, you know, what
I need to do not to give up.
Halfway across the world, there is a creature that has not forgotten the meaning of family.
Here on the plains of Kenya, early morning has brought with it a momentous occasion.
After nearly two years in her mother's womb, a calf has been born.
With her first tentative steps, she is welcomed into the herd.
These bonds will last a lifetime.
To be a baby elephant must be wonderful, surrounded by her loving family 24 hours a day, touched
by the family, cuddled, comforted, the tremendous love and compassion exuded by every family
member.
I think it must be how it ought to be in a perfect world.
Perhaps more than any other person, Daphne Sheldrick has a special understanding of baby
elephants.
For 50 years, she's been surrogate mother to dozens of orphans.
She's raised most of them here at her home in Nairobi, alongside her human family.
Her encounters with elephants have taught her lasting lessons in compassion.
The most recent arrival is three-week-old Elingwesi.
If she's to survive, the nurturing she would have gotten from her wild family will have
to be replaced.
If you've had your own children, as I have, and now have grandchildren, it's not difficult
to see.
They're very family-minded animals.
These little elephants are a bit deprived, but they have a human family in place of the
elephant one, but it's not quite the same thing.
Daphne learned this lesson the hard way, 25 years ago.
When I had my first baby, Aisha, I didn't have any keepers, there was just me.
And I fed her every four hours, like you would a human baby, and put it in her little stable
at 10 o'clock at night with one of my dresses hanging in her stable.
That actually wasn't enough.
She got to six months, but when I left her for four days because my daughter was getting
married, she simply died of a broken heart.
Then I learned that they must have a family.
Elephants mature at much the same rate as humans.
Their lives can span 80 years.
Like Daphne's grandson, these infants will be dependent upon their human family for many
years to come.
Their keepers are the key to their survival.
Meshack's a hot favorite with all our elephants.
He's our most experienced keeper, and these other men are trainees, you know, they're
being taught, no pushing, no pushing.
She's tried to push him out of the way so that the others don't get there.
When you want to see whether baby elephants in good condition, you always look at the
face.
You should not see this bone, you see.
This little one is a little bit, tiny bit on the lean side still.
The cheek bone is just visible here, but they're all putty on condition.
You can see this, she's getting fat cheeks too, aren't you?
The elephants must be very fond of their family, and the family must be fond of the elephants.
You can tell who's a good keeper and who's not just by the reaction of the elephants.
They can read your heart.
To look at these infants now, one would never guess the trauma they've so recently been
through.
This little one was only six weeks old when her mother was shot in southern Kenya.
Like the others, she's made a remarkable recovery.
The keepers are with the orphans around the clock, even through the night.
It is ironic that even an infant like Ealinguesi can teach lessons in resiliency.
Elephants have certainly taught me how to put the bad things behind, turn the page and
get on with living.
Understanding the traumas that elephants have to put up with and how they cope with it has,
I think, made me a stronger person as well.
If elephants dream, might this one be dreaming of the family she once had?
Can she know that if she survives, someday she'll have a family in the wild once again?
Only 200 miles away from Daphne's orphanage lies Savo National Park.
It is here that Ealinguesi's future family awaits her.
In a small section of the park sits a compound, phase two of Daphne's orphanage.
Here lives a herd of six orphaned elephants, all of whom arrived on Daphne's doorstep
years ago as infants.
At Savo, they're learning how to be wild elephants.
Each day they leave the safety of their compound and follow their keepers into the park.
Here they mingle with the wild herds, learning the language of elephants.
Their self-appointed matriarch is 10-year-old Malaika.
She keeps a close watch over her little family.
Look at the compound, the keepers are concerned about their youngest charge.
She was orphaned two weeks ago and is still dependent on milk.
She's too young to join the others in the bush and her health is poor.
Daphne has flown from Nairobi to bring medicine and see what she can do.
Despite the efforts of the keepers, the baby is listless and reluctant to eat.
She's in shock and grief and a little bit sick, which is not too bad.
You didn't make it, did you?
Daphne knows it will take more than the keepers and food to pull the little one through.
She desperately needs the company of other elephants.
The next morning, Malaika is asked to leave two members of the herd behind.
The youngest females are held back to provide companionship for the little one.
Malaika is very agitated having her family split.
That's an unnatural thing to do, but she loves and trusts the keepers.
Having been an orphan herself, she understands that that little calf is not very well.
The older orphans instantly comfort and reassure the newcomer.
The change is almost immediate.
Just because she's with these other elephants, she's trying to eat much more.
There's been a big difference.
She's making much more of an effort today than she has previously.
So the will to live is kicking in, which is really great.
There's a tremendous lot we humans can learn from elephants.
An elephant's relationship with its family continues beyond death.
They will visit the bones of a loved one for years afterwards, come to that place, remember.
Sometimes they'll come and take a piece of a body to carry off with them, and always
remember with tremendous love a family member.
We're really in a perfect world, that's how we all ought to be.
Women needn't travel to Africa to find wisdom in the wild.
Even Earth's tiniest creatures hold tremendous secrets we've just begun to unlock.
If we take the time to look closely, we'll find there's a world of wonder right in our
own backyards.
Those very creatures we might take for granted have inspired doctors, scientists, and even
engineers for centuries.
Take the butterfly.
Its navigational skills are nothing short of remarkable.
On a diet of nectar, some butterflies can travel up to a hundred miles a day.
Each year the monarch navigates all the way from Canada to Mexico, nearly 3,000 miles.
Another outstanding flight specialist is the dragonfly.
These ancient flying machines can outmaneuver even our most sophisticated helicopters.
Two sets of wings move independently, allowing them to fly in any direction, even backwards.
They've been clocked at speeds of 60 miles an hour.
During their 300 million years on Earth, they've evolved into a masterpiece of engineering.
More and more often, scientists are looking to nature's smaller organisms for inspiration.
For well over a century, we've been studying a creature who tends to keep a low profile,
the salamander.
When it loses its tail, it grows a new one.
This brilliant adaptation has specialists hoping to someday regenerate human limbs and
spinal cords.
Amphibians, it seems, might harbor an entire pharmacy in their mysterious world.
The colorful skin of poison dart frogs has extraordinary properties.
Recently, a drug 200 times stronger than morphine was created from the skin of this little frog
from Ecuador.
What else has yet to be revealed?
Spiders are ingenious engineers.
Their silk is five times stronger than a piece of steel cable of the same weight and far
more resilient.
By means we don't yet understand, some silk will adhere to any surface.
If we could find their blueprint, we could build better suspension bridges, create sutures,
even artificial ligaments.
Researchers covet the inventions of even the most unlikely creatures.
Even the lowly slug has developed an exceptional product.
Secreting one of Earth's greatest lubricants, a slug can climb over razor blades without
being cut.
We have yet to create such an effective lubricant ourselves.
As day gives way to the wonders of night, another little genius emerges from the shadows.
These tiny lanterns of the night have elevated the art of lighting to a fine science.
Only 100% of a firefly's glow is pure light.
A normal electric light bulb gives off only 10% of its energy as light, while 90% is wasted
as heat.
If we could harness the ingenuity of nature's little beacons, we'd surely have a brighter
future.
So many creatures within our world still remain a mystery.
We've only just begun to probe the surface.
Dolphins have intrigued humans for millennia.
So unlike ourselves and yet so accepting of our species, these remarkable creatures have
unlocked the silent world of a young boy.
Eight-year-old Thomas Carling was born with a rare genetic disorder.
For Thomas and his family, communication has been a heartbreaking struggle.
I want a son who can turn around and call me dad.
I know he knows what I'm talking about, and I know he knows what this ball is.
And what we've got to try and get him to do is to tell us exactly what it is he wants,
because it's all about giving Thomas a life of his own.
We always felt that we needed to find a key for Thomas, something that was going to unlock
his mind.
And I'm sure that in the dolphins we found that key.
For the past four years, the Carlings have traveled from the north of England to the
Florida Keys for a special kind of therapy.
Though it involves a trained therapist, the dolphins themselves are pivotal.
They're actually opening his mind, there's a connection that's happening between them
and him, and that's being sort of worked with by the therapist, and really what it's doing
is it's getting his mind to actually think on something, and we actually think it's this
stimulation that is helping him to learn, and developing this brain that is basically
going much slower than any normal child would.
Thomas has developed a passion for the dolphins here at Dolphin Human Therapy.
Speech therapist Janet Skinner uses Thomas' love for the animals to focus and motivate
him.
Without language, they have spurred him to reach beyond his limitations.
For the first time in his life, Thomas has begun to communicate, something his family
never dreamed possible.
They seem to have a sixth sense about children that need them, and they're different with
every child.
For some child that may have great physical impairments, the dolphin is extremely gentle
and seems to have a sense of what the child needs, because the dolphin will be as different
in each session with the different children as the children are themselves different.
Ricky can be aggressive, he's a little bit tactically defensive, so just the way the
animals feel in and of itself is an excellent thing for us to work on with Ricky.
Physical therapist Marcy McMahon has been working with eight-year-old Ricky for the
past two weeks.
He can push on the animals, and they just kind of say, we're going to wait, we're
going to wait.
They'll stick with him, they're very patient, they'll come up, they'll stay right in his
face until he reaches out, which is what I'm asking him to do.
And for Ricky, that's a really important skill to develop.
It's something that will generalize into other areas, and the animals are perfect for Ricky.
He's rubbing a lot.
Well, that's not quite what we want to hold on to, but that's pretty good, Rick.
That's pretty good.
These 500-pound animals exhibited gentleness and patience that children respond to in extraordinary
ways.
Thomas.
You want more?
Beautiful.
Nice job.
They instantly calm you, they instantly sort of reassure you, and I think with Thomas that's
something that must be connecting with him, and I think the interaction goes beyond the
therapist.
I think there's something going on that we can't see, I'm sure of it.
We seem to touch a place deep within Thomas that no one else has reached.
They give him friendship without judgment, communication without words, and with their
help they allow him to reach heights he's never before known.
At the end of each session comes a goodbye, and the heart of a young boy breaks.
But Thomas' father has found a means of keeping the dolphins close at hand.
The dolphins never leave Thomas' life, they're there every day for him when he wants them.
I think it's a connection that I'll never be able to put my finger on, I don't think
anyone will.
And you can see it now with him watching it, I mean I'm talking away, he's totally focused
on what's going on in there.
It's a whole experience that he's got inside his head, and hopefully one day he'll tell
us about it, tell us what the truth is, I don't know.
While many creatures remain so much a mystery, others we have come to know nearly as well
as we know ourselves.
Hey, remember me?
Hey, a little older.
Just hours north in Florida, a woman has come to revisit some dear old friends.
Are you smiling?
I'm smiling, I'm so happy to see you.
The chimpanzees have provided us with so much in this world, so much knowledge about ourselves,
about our social lives, about our dispositions, because they are so much like us, as beings.
Our closest living relatives have given us perhaps more than any other creature.
So intelligent and hauntingly familiar, entertainment was only the beginning of their legacy.
In the 1950s, young chimps were drafted into our burgeoning space program.
When we deemed it too risky to send our own kind, we sent infant chimpanzees to probe
the outer limits of our universe.
With a physiology so much like ours, they were the perfect pioneers.
Sharing 98% of our chromosomes, they soon became the ideal models to test life-saving
drugs, vaccines, and countless medical techniques.
But all of this came at a price.
During the 1960s, with hepatitis on the rise, chimpanzees were once again enlisted.
In the fight to find a vaccine, hundreds of chimps were subjected to ongoing tests.
For years on end, routine liver biopsies and solitary lives in cramped steel cages was
all that some would ever know.
This is the story of three such chimpanzees.
A female named Swing, a young male named Sparky, six-year-old Doll, and the woman whose life
they would change forever.
Linda Koepner was a 23-year-old graduate student when she was asked to participate in a bold
new project.
A hepatitis vaccine had been found, and certain chimps were no longer needed.
Would they be capable of a normal existence after life in the lab?
On a January morning, a small group of chimpanzees caught their first glimpse of the sun in over
six years.
They were terrified to get out of the security of that transfer cage, whether it was afraid
to step on the grass, they hadn't been on anything but hard bars for years, or just
the feel of the wind and the sun, and they just huddled in the doorways and wouldn't
come out.
Over time we coaxed them, and Doll was right up a tree, but some of the others had never
tasted any kind of freedom since they were infants riding on their mother's back, and
they had been in these little boxes for years and years.
For the next four years, Linda spent every day with the chimps, watching over them, observing
their journey back to wholeness.
There was a grand experiment, no one knew whether it would work, but it did.
Twenty-five years later, Linda's come back for a long-awaited visit.
A few of her old friends still remain.
It's been 18 years since Linda has had any contact with Doll and swing face to face.
There's no telling how they'll react.
And her old friends are now wild animals.
These chimpanzees have taught me about resilience.
All of these have gone through such tremendous adversity, and yet they're forgiving and they're
whole again.
Good girl.
I guess if you remember me, you remember a lot of things, don't you?
Back to Africa, in the lab.
When we came down here, remember when you got so sick, and you let me carry you off
the island?
It's good you got better.
It's good you've had a good life.
Doll, let me see.
I don't think Lion Country even knew it when it started, but it has provided wonderful
sanctuary for these chimpanzees.
Over 30 chimpanzees have found their way to this refuge in southern Florida.
Each chimp arrived with a history.
Some were once pets, but discarded when they grew too strong to handle.
Others were research chimps.
A female named Inky was crippled during polio trials.
They all bear the scars of the past, but here they've been given the chance to live out
their days with others of their kind.
Today, Lion Country has reached its capacity, and there are many more chimps who still need
homes.
Linda's concerned that there are more than 600 chimps no longer needed in research, and
there's no place for them to go.
There are many hundreds of them, hundreds of them, that are sitting still in laboratories.
Many of them have a very enriched environment, but still they're in laboratories.
They don't have the freedom to just be chimpanzees.
Oh, look at my girl.
You're your own girl.
Inspired by the success of Doll and Swing, Linda is determined to provide homes for other
chimpanzees in need.
My dream is to replicate, even on a grander scale, what we were able to do for the chimps
that came to Lion Country with us.
I just hope that this is a model and that we can give them the respect and the freedom
to live out their lives, at least together.
But there's one chimpanzee who may never see Linda's dream come true.
Hey, Sparky.
Oh, my Sparky, look at you.
One of her old friends, Sparky, is in the hospital.
Only 32 years old, he looks like an old man of 60.
Thanks in large to this chimpanzee, today we have a vaccine for hepatitis, but Sparky
paid the price.
I've been hoping to really have a good diagnosis and be able to treat him, but nothing's going
to work, and so I'm fortunate to be able to say goodbye to him.
I love you.
Good night, and goodbye.
Sparky died two days later, but his legacy lives on.
Linda and her colleagues have been given 200 acres of land in Shreveport, Louisiana, for
the nation's first large-scale chimpanzee.
Her dream is coming true.
Something that is in my heart, and I think is in Doll's heart and Swing's heart that
we share, to give something back.
It's important not just for me, but it's important for all of us as a species to realize that
all animals are individuals, and they have feelings and thoughts, and they suffer the
pain and the joy that we do.
And they're entitled and deserve an opportunity.
To wake up one day and see that all of this is gone would be like throwing away the last
medical textbook.
We tend to think that we're different and that we're above the animal kingdom, but we
are still animals, and we share many similarities.
We've just begun to explore the uncharted land that lies between us.
There are volumes yet to learn, and so much to lose if we let them slip away.
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