wildlife
Puffin Island
Puffins are brilliant. They live up to their nickname of the clowns of the sea: I think they might even beat toucans and penguins to top comical bird status. It’s impossible to watch them here – bobbing on the waves, zooming about underwater, enjoying a clifftop party – without a smile on your face. That’s [...]
The Lion, the Keeper and the Dealer
I’m torn. Am I pleased that finally the people of Northern Ireland can’t just go out and buy tigers and wolves and cobras and keep them in their sheds? Or am I a bit sad that uniformity now reigns and, 30 years after the rest of Britain introduced wild animals legislation, Northern Ireland has been [...]
Wild China: Shangri-La
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 [...]
Wild: Otters
Ten lovely minutes. Cameraman father and son go otter filming on the Isle of Skye. My favourite bit is the Mouse Ferrari Experiment. Apart from the otters of course.
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