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David Attenborough fools a woodpecker

submitted by BicycleRepairMan

1 decade 6 years 3 months 1 week ago

After 54 years of making TV history, David Attenborough is quitting his "in the field" programmes with the latest episode of "Life in Cold Blood" This clip is from an earlier series.

David impersonates the sound of a woodpecker marking its territory in order to... observe the behaviour of a pair in a wood. From BBC Worldwide

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BicycleRepairMan

Damnit, I hate embed disabling, but I thought I'd try my hand at fighting the law just this once.. it did actually work.. for a while.. did they catch me? Hmm..

I needed to go to YouTube to view it, but this was great. I'm still gonna vote.

>> ^BoneyD:
I needed to go to YouTube to view it, but this was great. I'm still gonna vote.

^ ^ ^
This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNmh5w6cj78

I love it when Dave fucks with the animals.

http://www.vimeo.com/754395

BicycleRepairMan

Thanks for the link, xxovercastxx, its now working as an embed!

Upvote for the drumming bird towards the end!

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