David Attenborough Retires from Nature
In the UK the final installment of Life in Cold Blood has aired, marking an end to an era.
Tonight, 54 years of Attenborough globetrotting come to an end, with the final instalment of Life in Cold Blood. He will continue to make TV programmes (including a series about Darwin), but his days of going on location, of getting urinated on by birds, pooed on by bats or having a Mozambican cobra spit venom in his eye, are over. Attenborough will never whisper from the bushes again.
It's been displayed in my Videosift profile since I started here that David Attenborough (along with James Burke) are my favourite clips. You can find a great collection of Attenborough located under the Videosift Tag that bares his name, Sorted by most votes.
The most popular Attenborough clip is the same here on the sift as it in practically every video community sharing community online. The Lyrebird...
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therealblankmanEnjoy your retirement, Sir David. Thank you for bringing a sense of joy and wonder to humanity.
BicycleRepairManI posted a video in commemoration of the event>
http://www.videosift.com/video/David-Attenborough-fools-a-woodpecker
Unfortunately, embedding was disabled on that one, I manage to work around that using my leet computer hack skills, but in the end I was defeated by
our strict but fair LordYoutube, they seem to have some kind of timing on it..You can still watch it by youtube, just click on the video outside the Play-button
DeanoLike some of the animals he's filmed we've almost taken the quality of these documentaries for granted. I might buy a cheap HD-DVD player and a copy of Planet Earth to fully appreciate the great man's work.
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