sailorman
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amazing
Attenborough on BBC now
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elton
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I watched it a couple of weeks ago, and was in awe of the banality of it all. Any fool with a budget of millions and a set of production equipment from the 23rd century could have produced it. It just seemed to hop from one photogenic location and species to another, with an authoritative sounding yet banal and uninformative commentary from THE wild life expert of the world on some bizzare and quirky aspect of the subject species' behaviour and/or physiology.
snooks
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snooks
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Anyone else see the crane on the left dropping the reef boat lift up?
sailorman
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yes thought it was a gonna to 
Twister_Ken
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Loved the photography, but I'm getting a little overexposed to David Attenborough. I reckon Steve Trewhella should be given the job.
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Poignard
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We watched a programme on Ch4 about the Queen, and her problems with the the Royal Family, trade unionists and politicians.
It featured some very exotic creatures with strange habits.
( Always excepting HM, of course. Who seemed to be the only sane person in the 1970s English madhouse )
It featured some very exotic creatures with strange habits.
( Always excepting HM, of course. Who seemed to be the only sane person in the 1970s English madhouse )
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lol.
Loved the one about insects & the insect that sprayed near boiling point liquid from it's abdomen.Stunning!& what a wonderful field to work in.
snooks
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I wouldn't like to work in a field full of insects spraying near boiling liquid from their tummy at me!!!!
But if that's what floats your boat, each to their own!
I wouldn't like to work in a field full of insects spraying near boiling liquid from their tummy at me!!!!
But if that's what floats your boat, each to their own!
I'd love it,it's incredibly interesting & apparently according to an article in the Biologist there is a severe shortage of entomologists.
I gave up Biology at school because of peer pressure (it was'nt considered macho enough).OH how things could have turned out differently
Ubergeekian
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David Attenborough is almost the last presenter on the BBC allowed to speak from knowledge. All other factual programmes have degenerated into "Top Gear Preseneter Makes Personal Journey Through Something He Knows Nothing About But Can Feign Interest In for Fifty Grand An Hour".
snooks
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I gave up Biology at school because of peer pressure (it was'nt considered macho enough).OH how things could have turned out differently
All depends on what you ended up doing...
If you gave up biology to become a Krispy Kreme doughnut taster, or head brewer I think you'd have made a good choice!
Beats sitting in a field having hot pee shot at you!
johnalison
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I think you may have missed some interesting wild-life and nature programmes that have adopted a fresh view. I don't remember his name, but last year there was a nice young man who went around the world looking for some quirky but rare animals, and made some fascinating programmes, and the series "Nature Shock" has come up with some good ones too, especially the one about Tasmanian Devils.
David Attenborough has done a good job for a good few years, but I would like to see programmes with a greater scientific content, which could still have popular appeal.
Ubergeekian
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What did you think of "Bang Goes the Theory" on BBC1 over the summer? That's the new popular science series - a successor to Tomorrow's World.
I'm inclined to agree with orbister.A lot of the modern Nature programs seem to be concentrating on bad news.the number of species going extinct that sort of stuff....or the modern trend to make little soaps out of the animals calling them all different names with one exception.Anyone see that program on a few weeks ago about the native who spent all his life overlooking Victoria falls or to give it it's better (in my opinion) local name,the water that thunders or something like that.An absolutely wonderful nature program seen from an Africans eyes & absolutely wonderful!
Do vaguly remember the nature shock programs & not thinking they were to bad I think (though possibly a little bit sensational).Must have missed the Tasmanian Devil one though.Did'nt they go extinct in the early part of the last Centuary though?
PS: for lovers of Nature though & ecology in particular I still can't recommend that film "Home" on YouTube highly enough.
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DogWatch
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I disagree, I presume you are referring to things alike meerkat diaries (or whatever it was named). It is on early evening and is little different to Johnny Morris 'Animal Magic' when I was a kid. Animal Magic gave me an 'in' to nature programs and the animal kingdom.
If you have problems with pitching subjects up and down the ages, newsround would also have to go, too dumbed down, yet this was an important program to me also when I was growing up. Not everything has to be written especially for members of the YBW community, not everyone is as informed as you, sometimes it is ok to watch something else.
David Attenborough's work is high quality and well presented and has probably kept the American really dumb style of world's most dangerous/scary/viscious/ad infinitum type shock docs of UK screens. bbc Bristol has my respect for the nature stuff it puts out, blue planet was spectacular. It is no surprise that the programs sell around the world, I don't know for sure, but I bet they make a profit on each DA series.
aussie123
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hi it was the tassie tiger thats not around any more the devil is in trouble but still going strongDo vaguly remember the nature shock programs & not thinking they were to bad I think (though possibly a little bit sensational).Must have missed the Tasmanian Devil one though.Did'nt they go extinct in the early part of the last Centuary though?
PS: for lovers of Nature though & ecology in particular I still can't recommend that film "Home" on YouTube highly enough.
All depends on what you ended up doing...
If you gave up biology to become a Krispy Kreme doughnut taster, or head brewer I think you'd have made a good choice!
Beats sitting in a field having hot pee shot at you!
Come on snooks it's not as simple as that.Ar'nt you just a little bit curious to see if they have got asbestos lined arses to enable them to shoot hot pee at their protagonists & how about their innards?It can't be easy generating near boiling point fluids within a living organism.
All these questions/phenomenon must have practical benefits if we can understand them & who knows,even practical applications?Anyway whatever they do it's got to be better than sitting & watching a milling machine.
Believe me that soon looses it's charm!
Your right dogwatch.I was thinking about this last night & it occurred to me that it appeals to the younger generation.
I got my interest mucking about down the woods as a kid & it has lead on from there.
David Attenborough is a brilliant character & his enthusiasm & character shines through.There was another Professor on that volcano expedition to new Guinea a few months ago that also impressed me.
I guess it is role models almost.......
