Wildlife

How do you monitor the life of a pride of lions from the birth of the cubs, to day they first go hunting by themselves. The answer is to call in David Attenborough and the gifted cameramen from the BBC. For indeed the wildlife documentary programmes produced by the BBC are among some of the best in the world. The camera work is both awe inspiring and keeps making you think how on earth did you get that shot. The patience and time involved must be immense. I would tip hat to them if indeed I wore own. The ?Cats? programme recently aired on BBC1 introduced the ?revolutionary? bouldercam ? a high quality remote camera installed disguised in a ...  Read the complete review

While Sir David Attenborough may be the King of Wildlife Documentaries, Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek is certainly the new princess on the block. She was the presenter on the BBC primate documentary - `Cousins`. Her presenting style was very good because she obviously felt so lucky to be there, being attacked by daddy gorillas or marvelling at miniature monkeys. The show itself was informative and intriguing, although I felt that I wasn't learning that much that I didn't already know from other wildlife documentaries. Still, the BBC are the masters of the TV genre, and this was a treat to watch. The photography was good, with some ...  Read the complete review

This three part BBC series brings us face to face with our 'cousins', ie various monkeys, gorillas etc, and is presented by a Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek. The idea is great, and some of the footage of the animals is truly stunning. I had no idea of how amazing some of these creatures are, and I have no doubt that much of this will be seen time and time again in various forms, as retrieved from the BBC archives. No, my gripe is with the production team who decided we needed to see so much of Dr C; yes, she's a very attractive lady, but when it comes down to it I'm spending my 50 minutes to see the apes, not her. Strange how we never see so much of David ...  Read the complete review

The BBC always manages to come up trumps with natural history programmes. They have done it again with ‘Cousins’ screened on Wednesday evening at 7pm. Presented by Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek, (who I must add is far better looking than David Attenborough is) The series is in three parts with the second being next Wednesday, studies primates or as she describes them ‘ Our long lost relatives. The series is a must for all natural history fans. Like all people I do grumble at having to pay my licence fee but having watched ‘Cousins’ I feel that the fee is quite justified. ...  Read the complete review

It is another BBC documentary that I love after "Walking with Dinasour". As the title of the show implies, it talks about the life of nature predators range from big creature such as lions and wolfs, to flying creatures such as kingfishers, to sea such as sharks and whales, to microscopic world such as bacterias. The reason I love this show because it makes the whole documentary more scientific and more interesting. It uses a very interesting to film all the nature creatures. Let me give you an example: There is a lion hunting at the big field in Africa. It is running towards to a big herd of zebras. The screen showed the x-ray-ed of the running lion, ...  Read the complete review