I Am Not an Animal

I Am Not an Animal is an animated comedy series telling the tale of highly intelligent animals rescued from a vivisectionist laboratory and forced to live on their own. The series was made and directed by Peter Baynham. It was produced by Triffic Films and ran on BBC2 in the United Kingdom from May 10 to June 14, 2004. It has also aired on the ABC in Australia. In the laboratory Vivi-Sec UK, a group of five animals are part of the fourth batch of... more

I Am Not an Animal is an animated comedy series telling the tale of highly intelligent animals rescued from a vivisectionist laboratory and forced to live on their own. The series was made and directed by Peter Baynham. It was produced by Triffic Films and ran on BBC2 in the United Kingdom from May 10 to June 14, 2004. It has also aired on the ABC in Australia. In the laboratory Vivi-Sec UK, a group of five animals are part of the fourth batch of Project S, an experiment designed to create talking animals. The animals are given a sophisticated lifestyle in order for them to develop their intellect, living a luxurious life run by computers 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 like humans in luxury. Meanwhile, the other animals... less