Watchification » nature http://watchification.com Sun, 31 May 2009 21:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Wild China: Shangri-La http://watchification.com/2008/05/19/wild-china-shangri-la/ http://watchification.com/2008/05/19/wild-china-shangri-la/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 11:15:24 +0000 emma http://watchification.com/?p=98 You’d think after decades of nature programmes they’d have run out of weird creatures to show us, but this episode about Yunnan, a remote forest in southwest China, is full of jaw-dropping moments – from bats the size of bumblebees living in a bamboo stem, to villagers tying feathers to hornets, to the unearthly song of the gibbon. A beautiful beginning as well, with a ghostly, sad-looking monkey sitting in the snow.

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In this hour-long wildlife extravaganza, you’ve got geckos from Bangkok, wrestling lizards, Sir David fishing for pygmy blue-tongued skinks, and much more besides.

(You can thank Jemima Kiss for putting me on to this one via Twitter.)

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