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Has anyone been watching this marvellous BBC nature programme hosted by the one and only Sir David Attenborough?
It is a follow on from Planet Earth 1 and 11.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06mybwy
It's a one hour programme over 5 episodes.
Five extraordinary animals, battling rivals and the forces of nature for the future of their families.
If you love wildlife you will enjoy this.
It's emotional, brutal and often heartwarming to watch.
Beautiful stunning photography, which we have all come to expect with all Attenborough programmes
Also ends with Sir David telling us how long each episode took to film. Nearly 3 years for the chimpanzee episode. It shows you the camera men and women and their struggles to get the perfect shot.
The final words are from the great man himself. Talking about the loss of the environment for these animals. With the chimps it's due to gold mining in Senegal. The numbers of chimpanzees in this region has been decimated to 200.
If you love David Attenborough, wildlife and care for the environment, this is a must watch series...
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You won't be disappointed @dgilbert2
Even if you have 'taped' them...
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Excellent, will make a nice change over Xmas 
@Cleoriff wrote:You won't be disappointed @dgilbert2
Even if you have 'taped' them...
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Yes it was excellent.
There's one theme that runs through all episodes in this series though and that's tragedy.
Although I know it's nature and survival of the fittest/strongest etc, it does make it very hard to watch.
I wouldn't miss it at all, but I couldn't binge watch the whole series. It's far too emotional.
With the Painted wolf episode we did see one of those pups taken by a hyena..and the matriach Tait died. Though the two packs came together at the end.
Always a great message about conservation at the end though....
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The final episode in this wonderful series was tonight. It featured the Tiger Dynasty
Raj Bhera a tigress, who has just had 4 cubs she needed to raise. Another animal in competition with her eldest daughter Solo.... who wants to move into her mother's territory.
First attempt unsuccesful
The 4 cubs were fine and being raised until the smallest female wandered off and was never seen again.
Raj Bhera desperate for food wandered too close to herdmen with cattle. Luckily the Tiger conservation team were nearby. They darted her and after a day she was released back to be reunited with her remaining family.
Again the conservation message from Sir David.
Tigers in the wild once numbered 100,000. Now they have decreased to 4000.
The one thing we didn't see and I have just found out from the BBC Dynasty website, the filming was finished in 2017. Sadly by June 2018, Raj Bhera was dead. Killed in a fight with another tiger...So sad.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06t5m8p
Already, viewers posting on Twitter, are demanding another series.
I hope so. This has been superb. Brutal at times, a roller coaster of emotions but brilliant.
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This series has been really good television, much better than what passes as 'entertainment' and although very sad at times, it's great to see these magnificent big cats in their natural environment. Nature has it's own cruel, yet wonderful, way of balancing things out. It's only the intervention and meddling of the cruelest beast of all, the human beast, that threatens the very existence of all other species of wildlife
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I just hope someone sticks it somewhere I can watch it.. sounds like I've missed another SDA classic. 😥
It will be on Catch up if you have a TV @Anonymous or BBC iPlayer.
I have seen some episodes on You Tube as well...
