This essay talks about the shooting, editing, and other perspectives of two wild animals documentaries One Life(2011) and The Hunt(2015), to show how TV presents and interprets wild animals and how it draws the distance between humans and the wildlife world through TV, so as to create the audience's closeness/immersion and emotional resonance for the wild world.

Zitong Xu. Wildlife Television: Eyes to See the Wild Animal’s World. Frontiers in Art Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 3: 63-66. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2022.040313.

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[3] The Hunt. 2015. [video] United Kingdom: BBC Natural History Unit, The Open University, BBC Worldwide, BBC America, CCTV-9, NDR Naturfilm.

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