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david attenborough

He was 99 yesterday. Happy birthday Sir David. πŸŽ‚

….and I’d never have known the Lesser spotted spider fly monkey fish even existed without him filming them….in shorts, in snow.
He's almost certainly not done a piece on the increasingly common species, Knobheadicus agfiensis but there's still time πŸ˜‰
 
I have one question which has always puzzled me. I've always watched the programs, but it dawned on me that, every life form that's featured, David has to show us its mating ritual. I really don't need to know how a slug makes babies.🀣
 
Nobody needs to know (except the slugs!) but knowledge can be useful/enjoyable for knowledge's sake. My brain is full of "useless" facts about all sorts of stuff, but I'm always willing to learn more...
 
Not sure how he is able to do his job without air travel ......
I would imagine his total contribution to climate change has been very minimal compared to many other individuals.
At least he is gaslighting the issue.
Tbf, I do like his wildlife programmes and that film with the dinosaurs was great - or was that his brother?
But I wish he would stfu about the climate change thing.
 
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If he has I take it back but I thought he was a supporter of it.
He did say that once deserts were once rivers and oceans were once land --evolution of the planet not global warming mother nature doing what it has always done weather patterns coming around in cycles ----What is a fact that us-man has polluted the planet with waist-rubbish plastics etc --that is what needs to change first -noting to do with burning fossil fuels giving of co2--mother nature gives off more of that from volcanos etc than man has ever made --the burning of land gives the earth carbon that it needs that helps generate new growth
 
This was my understanding too and that frailty meant he rarely travelled abroad on projects any longer
He's not particularly frail for his age. In the documentary about the dinosaur dig in Argentina just a few years ago, he got stuck in on the dig, helped assemble the skeleton. & other members of the team said he was up before them at 6am every day & didn't go to bed until after midnight.
 
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