News about David Attenborough

Jeremy Clarkson once claimed that global warming whingers made him want 'to shoot a polar bear in the middle of its face'. He says he watches David Attenborough documentaries as a drinking game, chugging a beer every time climate change is cited. So the 64-year-old presenter and petrolhead is an unlikely champion for green farming. Yet, as Clarkson's Farm (Amazon Prime) returns - his improbably popular telly diaries of muddles and mishaps on his 1,000-acre Oxfordshire rustic retreat - he is teaming up with a millionaire pop raver to promote 'regenerative agriculture'. Simply put, this means cutting back on chemicals and planting a mix of arable crops to coax the land back to health. His conversion seems about as plausible as Chris Packham commentating on F1, but he is in earnest. What an irony if Clarkson becomes the chief ambassador for back-to-nature politics - though, on the other hand, no one could have predicted before Amazon Prime launched this show in 2021 that he would be the man to make farming look fun and even cool.

Cameron Reardon, 22 made £5,000 a month selling exotic insects after turning his childhood hobby into a business during lockdown. He was only a 16-year-old college student when his bug venture began to boom in 2020. Inspired by his hero David Attenborough and a business presentation at school, the then-teenager began buying insects to breed and sell from his home in Llanelli. His business - Bug Box - rapidly grew, selling exotic species such as Thailand black tarantulas and ladybird spiders to buyers as far as Europe and the USA. Revealing how his business venture came to be, Cameron previously told the BBC in 2019: 'I used to keep them as pets myself and when they lay their offspring they don't do two to four like cats or dogs, they do thousands.

Both the Britain's Got Talent viewers and judging panel were left stunned after Simon Cowell demonstrated his David Attenborough impression on Sunday night. The music mogul, 64, jokingly adopted the beloved presenter's famous voice he uses to narrate his nature documentaries, to give feedback to one act during auditions. Simon, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli were gobsmacked as Geneviève Côté showed off her talent of creating nature sounds.

In a heartbreaking moment on BBC series Mammals, desperate foxes are seen feeding on one of their own who himself is believed to have collapsed and died from starvation. Rising temperatures in the Arctic have caused the sea to freeze over later in the year and, without sea ice, it means the foxes are unable to hunt. Desperate and starving, the latest episode sees them resort to cannibalism in order to survive in one of the most gruesome and saddest scenes the broadcaster has ever shot. In scenes some viewers might find too uncomfortable to watch, the episode shows a skulk of foxes fighting over the carcass that has starved to death on Canada's Hudson Bay.

Despite a 70-year reign of consummate duty, it turns out that the late Queen Elizabeth loved a good old mishap - to add some variety to the royal routine. That's according to no less an authority than Her Majesty's former aide, Samantha Cohen, who was interviewed recently for an Australian newspaper. 'The Queen had no ego, she was comfortable in herself, yet she loved it when things went wrong,' she explained to Melbourne-based Herald Sun. 'If a cake was not cutting or a plaque didn't unveil, because everything was so organised, it spiced her life up,' said Ms Cohen, known by the Queen as Samantha the Panther for her ferocious work ethic. For all that regal decorum, Her Majesty had a sharp sense of humour - devilment, even - and seemed to relish making others laugh, in fact, as these rather surprising video clips make clear…

Pamela Anderson has made a huge career change as she aims to become the next Sir David Attenborough after launching her birdwatching channel EarthDay 365. The channel, which was founded by the Baywatch star, 56, offers 2,500 hours of shows on nature. The channel began on Pluto TV in the US two months ago and has now been snapped up by streaming service Amazon Freevee.

The viewers of Sir David Attenborough's latest BBC wildlife film Mammals are split on whether scenes of elephants strolling around a town were real. During the performance, audience members took to social media to raise questions over footage of African elephants roaming a town in Zimbabwe nightly jaunts. One said the elephants look like CGI, not buying it, while another said, "some of this camera work looks like AI." A third person expressed disappointment: "We thought the elephants looked like CGI." However, Mammals assistant producer Sarah-Jane Walsh confirmed that it was real, from a 'low light camera' and 'high ISO', a way to capture brighter images in dim situations. Harriet Lawrence, another assistant producer on the show, said finding the elephants was impossible, especially because the team used thermal scopes to spot them in dark alleyways. It follows a series of TV fakery rows in nature shows over the years, with the most notable in 2011 being scenes in the BBC's Frozen Planet that apparently showed a polar bear giving birth in the wild being shot in a Dutch zoo.

Yes, please, I will have one. It saves you from having to mow the lawn and leaves an endless supply of fertiliser for the flowerbeds. However, we're just talking about the one - our garden isn't large enough for more than a single elephant. If Berlin prohibits the import of hunting trophies, Botswana's president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, is threatening to send 20,000 elephants to Germany. 'This is not a joke,' he says. The way you're trying to tell us, Germans should have a taste of living'together with the animals.' In Mammals, David Attenborough gave us exactly the same experience (BBC1). Elephants are seen strolling through the gardens every night in a Zimbabwe town. These have been their stamping grounds for aeons, and they are not going to change their habits simply because a few humans have turned up. They block the streets, trample the vegetable patch, tear up delectable bushes, and even turn on taps with the tips of their trunks to sneak a drink.

There's so much to sink your teeth into this weekend, from a roaring rom-com, riots in the streets, and a right royal drama. We've sifted through thousands of choices to save you the hassle, and we've rounded up the 20 best shows to watch On Demand right now. Looking for a new series to stream? Read on to find out which shows are worth investing your time in...

COMMISSION WARNING: Naturalists spent five years investigating how mammals were adapting to changing habitats ahead of the new set of six documentaries. Users of social media platforms took to 'X', formerly known as Twitter, to celebrate the new episode, which they said was a 'treat' to watch on a Sunday evening. On Easter Sunday, however, some people were shocked to learn that a bunny was pulled apart by a coyote. "Now it's eating a rabbit's head," one person said. Happy Easter folks!'

The executive producer of new David Attenborough's Mammals has revealed that his personal highlight from the BBC documentary was contaminated because the team's'messed it up in a very tragic way.' On BBC One and BBC iPlayer, the six-part series takes a look at how mammals use their "resilience" to adapt to virtually every situation. In a BBC interview, executive producer Roger Webb said one of his favorite moments in the series is one that has been marred by decades of human conflict.

Sting - then known as Gordon Sumner - taught English at St Paul's School, Cramlington, Northumberland, before gaining fame as a rock star. He recalled how one pupil skipped school and put on a booming voice in a phone call to announce his absence in his autobiography Broken Music. The boy erupted: 'Er... It's me mam.' When Mr Sumner asked who was calling, he replied: 'Er, mam.' Ricky Ross, a frontman for Deacon Blue, was an English tutor at St Columba of Iona, Glasgow.

The English people, as a group, have a global reputation for hypocrisy. If unfair or not, it is unreasonable for Parliament to promote such a prejudice, particularly among our former British colonies who are still members of the Commonwealth. MPs are expected to do exactly that on Friday, when they vote on a bill to prohibit the import of hunting 'trophies' of allegedly endangered species, primarily from Africa, with the intention of safeguarding wildlife and destroying the big game hunting industry. And the hypocrisy? Big game trophy hunting is legal in the United Kingdom, and the Bill before MPs, co-sponsored by Labour's John Spellar and the Conservative Henry Smith, has nothing to say about it.

Stoicism is a ancient belief, dating back to the third century BC. According to the belief, living virtuously (more on that later) and acknowledging that you can't control everything will make you happier.

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Jo Kessel, a travel blogger, filmed the ultimate polar bear cruise on board Hurtigruten's 220-passenger expedition ship MS Spitsbergen. The film depicts life on a voyage, with passengers on foot and in inflatable zodiac boats as they search for wildlife and glaciers. In addition, there's a video of Jo being attacked by an Arctic tern, kayaking at the North Pole's ice edge, and finding one nourished polar bear.

According to MailOnline, if Steve Nallon (bottom right) made the correct decision, he may have spent weeks up in north Wales on the back end of a horse. However, he returned to work as a defiant working class lad from Leeds, but instead opted to remain unemployed in the hopes of landing a more exciting acting role. Fortunately for him, he only landed the gig of his life: voicing Margaret Thatcher on Spitting Image for a decade. The biting latex comedy on TV, characterized by the use of grotesque latex puppets of politicians, the Royal Family, and celebrities, made its television debut 40 years ago this month on February 26, 1984. Steve returns the voice of Britain's first female prime minister to life with a touch of nirvana. We've all read it.' On a Sunday, Denis and I read it,' Steve - impersonating 'Maggie,' says of the 'excellent' Daily Mail. Mrs Thatcher was portrayed as a power-crazed authoritarian with her Cabinet under her heel, and Spitting Image's designers incorrectly enhanced her image, according to the comedian. The show's revival, which was canceled after just two seasons in 2022, was unsuccessful because its producers did not know that the 'whole point' of it was to be 'offensive.'

Sir David Attenborough's latest audio-focused documentary have found that sounds of nature are often captured in the editing suite, not in the wild. "Many of the animal's authentic sounds come from existing sound libraries or recordings," the Sky Nature team said. There would normally be a 'guide track' with general background sounds,' they said, but, as other natural history shows, sound is recorded in post-production. However, some followers of Sir David's films have claimed that this has left them feeling'scammed,' with one saying: 'I'm not sure I can even lose myself in an episode again.' It follows a string of television fakery rows in nature over the years, with the most notable in 2011 when it emerged that scenes in the BBC's Frozen Planet that seemed to depict a polar bear giving birth in the wild were actually shot in a Dutch zoo. Other nature documentaries are also known to have recreated sound effects in a studio, but this industry-wide strategy is reportedly because animal sounds are otherwise impossible for viewers to distinguish above other noises in a studio.

A man who lives on one of Notting Hill's most vibrant streets says he loves the 'free entertainment' provided by visitors and influencers who have taken over the area. Bart, who does not wish to reveal his last name, claims that every week hundreds of people crowd his street to snap the perfect image for Instagram or TikTok. His street, which he also kept private, is often listed in Notting Hill's top ten "most Instagrammable" streets, and is lined by colorful houses.

To resurrect the iconic show, BBC bosses paid an eye-watering £30 million. However, the broadcaster's decision to re-invent the 90s hit show Survivor hasn't been the Saturday night TV saviour they were hoping for. The 18 survivors have travelled to the Dominican Republic, where they are trapped in a tropical location and divided into two tribes, competing against each other in a variety of physical and mental challenges for rewards or status.

On Monday, Peter William Smith, 57, of Singleton, was briefly mentioned in a Raymond Terrace local court. Smith, a high-profile defence lawyer, said he would have pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated animal cruelty. 'This is an allegation of an alligator eating a chicken,' Mr Wrench told Magistrate Justin Peach.' The accused act, according to the defense lawyer, was like something from a David Attenborough film.

Don't tell Mrs. Butten, I ooften robbed the garden after she's gone to bed, and I can relieve myself behind her lovingly tended shrubs in a corner where no one can see me. Well, it doesn't appear that doing her plants any harm does. I've also been known to nip off behind a tree on the common if the call of nature becomes too overwhelming to ignore when walking the dog, but I must admit that I go to great pains (often literally) to find a spot in the woods where there are no witnesses. I'd be mortified if anyone recognized me. My explanation is that I have prostate problems like so many men of a certain age - the King comes to mind. This means I can no longer boast myself on my cast-iron bladder, as I did in my youth, when I could drink a beer without ever needing the gents.

Heroes, whether it's Superman or Indiana Jones, have long been a central focus of blockbuster movies. But who would you say is your biggest personal hero? Scientists set out to find the most famous celebrities in the United Kingdom in a new survey. Their findings revealed some key points, including family members, religious leaders, and politicians, as well as authors, actors, and even adventurers. So, would you say any of these popular choices is your hero?