00:00How Animals Became Unsung Heroes in Shaping American History
00:05Animals did not just appear in American history, they helped move it.
00:10In 1925, Balto became the famous face of the gnome serum run,
00:15after sled dog teams carried diphtheria antitoxin across brutal Alaskan conditions
00:20when planes could not do the job.
00:22During World War I, Cher Ami, a homing pigeon working with the U.S. Army Signal Corps,
00:27delivered a message that helped save trapped American soldiers from friendly fire.
00:33Beautiful Jim Key, a performing horse trained by Dr. William Key,
00:37drew huge crowds and helped popularize humane animal training
00:41at a time when cruelty was often accepted.
00:44Smokey, a tiny Yorkshire terrier found during World War II,
00:49crawled through a narrow pipe to help run a communications line,
00:52then later became a comfort animal for wounded soldiers.
00:56Even animals outside America changed America's path.
01:01Laika, the Soviet space dog, helped prove living beings could survive orbit long enough
01:06to push the space race forward.
01:08These stories are not just cute history.
01:11They show animals as messengers, workers, companions, symbols, and scientific pioneers.
01:17America was shaped by people, machines, wars, and inventions.
01:23But sometimes, history moved because a dog, pigeon, horse, or cat
01:29did something humans could not do alone.
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