Sir David Attenborough's Dynasties
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Nom de ploom said:
this is what i pay my licence fee for.
the cinematography almost looked too perfect at times and made it feel so real.
David was some tough motherf
ker - gashed wrist lag and gonads - would write many a bloke off.
Not to mention the bitten off thumb and toe the cinematography almost looked too perfect at times and made it feel so real.
David was some tough motherf
ker - gashed wrist lag and gonads - would write many a bloke off.
That was brutal.Gameface said:
Really glad they stepped in to help the trapped ones.
Yeah, it's obviously always horrible for them to film the death and violent sides of these things and must be impossible not to intervene sometimes, especially when it comes to heavily threatened species like this. Glad they did in this case and it worked a treat. I think had it been something like rescuing an antelope being chased by lions or taking a load of food to starving animals then that would be the wrong type of intervention, but building an escape for trapped penguins whose deaths would have been completely needless then I think they did the right thing.
The penguins’ deaths wouldn’t have deprived or advantaged other species, nor affected any group or environmental dynamics so the film crew intervening was a good thing I think. It’s not as if the poor buggers didn’t have a savage and brutal enough existence in the first place that a bit of help wouldn’t go amiss!
The penguins’ deaths wouldn’t have deprived or advantaged other species, nor affected any group or environmental dynamics so the film crew intervening was a good thing I think. It’s not as if the poor buggers didn’t have a savage and brutal enough existence in the first place that a bit of help wouldn’t go amiss!
Antony Moxey said:
I think had it been something like rescuing an antelope being chased by lions or taking a load of food to starving animals then that would be the wrong type of intervention, but building an escape for trapped penguins whose deaths would have been completely needless then I think they did the right thing.
The penguins’ deaths wouldn’t have deprived or advantaged other species, nor affected any group or environmental dynamics so the film crew intervening was a good thing I think. It’s not as if the poor buggers didn’t have a savage and brutal enough existence in the first place that a bit of help wouldn’t go amiss!
That basically what I said to my girlfriend. Plus by that time they'd got all the footage of them being stuck that they needed to tell the story (especially the one that got out by itself) so how could you walk back to your cosy research station knowing they'll all be dead tomorrow?The penguins’ deaths wouldn’t have deprived or advantaged other species, nor affected any group or environmental dynamics so the film crew intervening was a good thing I think. It’s not as if the poor buggers didn’t have a savage and brutal enough existence in the first place that a bit of help wouldn’t go amiss!
They did the right thing.
Was slightly dusty here when at the end the bloke was crying and said he wanted to go home but also wanted to stay because it's such a privilege to be around such animals.
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
Agree on the above. There is no way anyone could just leave them knowing a little bit of digging would save them and with zero ecological impact.
more accurate: a little bit of digging gave those trapped a chance to save themselves - but still damned hard work to get out! I think they hit the right note: a bit of help, but no direct interference.What is astonishing is how such a brutal life cycle came about - virtually nothing in their breeding is easy: the sex looked slightly comical, then taking it turns to waddle a huge distances to get food, with a chance by the time they get back their egg/chick would have died, and/or their partner too. Even if that doesn't happen, huge mob of penguins and you have to hunt down your other half!
I do struggle with Africa. I know this can sound ignorant from a westerner sitting in front of a cosy fire watching this on their wide screen TV but I still can’t help thinking why the locals can’t see that killing the most valuable resource they have is beyond stupid. Once the lions, elephants and cheetahs are extinct they’ve killed of their most lucrative asset and can look forward to a whole new level of poverty
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