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point the animals discover that they were created in a lab and attempt to return. Upon breaking into the lab they discover that they have already been replaced and that their replacements are more successful than they, as each replacement has managed to achieve one of the animals' fondest wishes such as Winona's desire for children. Realizing that they have no place left, the animals return to the old woman's home to live out their lives.
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to tell him that there are talking animals at her house. Believing the elderly lady to have lost her mind, he has medics take her away, leaving the animals to live in her house. During the series the animals try to interact with the world around them, to varying degrees of success or failure. At one
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in something similar to a four-star hotel, unaware they are really part of a laboratory experiment. They have human-like personalities and names, wear specially designed clothes, speak in a pseudo-intellectual fashion, eat gourmet food, drink fine wines, read books and magazines and generally live
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When one of the animals asks the activists if they will be stopping for a toilet break, they panic and crash the truck into a tree. The animals escape, and go their separate way. After running into humans who are shocked, and other animals who can't speak as they do, they deduce they have somehow
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activists break into the laboratory to rescue the animals. Kieron is left behind, having his head removed from the rest of his body and being kept alive by machines. As the other animals are boarded into the activists' truck they don't know what's going on, and are joined by Niall (voiced by
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Meanwhile, Vivi-Sec UK graft Kieron's head onto the body of a gorilla and send him out to assassinate the other animals. Vivi-Sec UK also alerts the media that dangerous talking animals are on the loose.
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In the laboratory Vivi-Sec UK, a group of six animals are part of the fourth batch of Project S, an experiment designed to create talking animals.
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been transported into an alternative reality where only humans can speak and the other animals are enslaved by them (a reference to
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The animals are given a sophisticated lifestyle in order for them to develop their intellect, living a luxurious life run by
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like humans in luxury. Meanwhile, the other animals outside Project S are tortured with horrific experiments.
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laboratory and forced to live on their own. The series was made and directed by
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in the United Kingdom from 10 May to 14 June 2004. It has also aired on the
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from an earlier batch of Project S which can only speak computer advice.
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The animals take shelter in an elderly lady's house, who calls her
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telling the tale of highly intelligent animals rescued from a
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I Am Not an Animal clips YouTube playlist from BBC Worldwide
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Index

I Am Not An Animal

Black comedy
Steve Coogan
Amelia Bullmore
Julia Davis
Kevin Eldon
Arthur Mathews
Simon Pegg
John Shrapnel
Baby Cow Productions
BBC Two
animated
black comedy
TV series
vivisectionist
Peter Baynham
Baby Cow Productions
BBC Two
ABC
The Elephant Man
computers
Thoroughbred horse
Steve Coogan
pit bull
Amelia Bullmore
Japanese macaque
Kevin Eldon
rat
Julia Davis

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