Cities: Nature's New Wild
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The best place in the world to grow up must be Mocajuba in Brazil.
The children aren’t wealthy, it’s true — they don’t have PlayStations or ballet lessons. But they do have dolphins.
Amazon river dolphins, so rare that they were unknown to science till 2012, have long been trained by the local fishermen to drive shoals of fish into their nets . . . and, in return, to share half the catch.
When youngsters leap off the banks to splash about in the waters, the dolphins join in.
The children who live in Mocajuba in Brazil have dolphins to play with. While in Cape Town, South Africa, commuters get to see penguins waddle up and down
These friendly mammals let the children cling to their tails for rides and play chase, just for the joy of it. I can’t imagine anything more fun, at any age.
Cities: Nature’s New Wild (BBC2) was full of such unlikely stories.
The first of a three-part documentary series looking at how animals are adapting to live alongside people, it hopped briskly across continents, from Thailand to Australia, then to the U.S. and over to Spain, to study a variety of enterprising species — some cute, some less so.
The pavement ants of Manhattan, which devour hundreds of tons of discarded burgers and pizza every day, might be enterprising but they weren’t lovable.
On the other hand, the otters of Singapore were so cuddly that they deserve their own reality show — Otterly Fabulous.
Like meerkats, the adult otters stand on their back legs and keep an eye open while the cubs play.
But when trouble appears, they don’t bolt: instead, they form a gang and go on the attack. The local pooches have learned to give them a wide berth.
In Adelaide, drought has brought a colony of 20,000 fruit bats to roost in the trees of the city’s botanic gardens.
They cool off by skimming over the ponds, getting their fur wet so they can hang upside down and have a drink later. Clever bats.
Each of these segments unfolded like a short story, with a surprise at the end of each one.
In Adelaide, the twist was that every summer thousands of music fans roll in for a music festival — and the bats don’t mind. Perhaps they like goth rock.
Residents in Singapore are pictured walking along as an otter family sits ahead of them in Cities: Nature's New Wild
It might be best, though, if no one invites Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne. Infamously, he once bit the head off a bat on stage.
That’s a bit too wild. This was a great evening for wildlife, as the ingenious camera wizard John Downer sent his hidden lenses to film polar bears and emperor penguins, on Spy In The Snow (BBC1).
With video devices hidden in remote-control snowballs and eggs, his teams are able to roll the electronic eyes right up to wild animals without disturbing them.
This was a great evening for wildlife, as the ingenious camera wizard John Downer sent his hidden lenses to film polar bears and emperor penguins, on Spy In The Snow (BBC1), writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
In the Antarctic, it’s forbidden for crews to come within 30 yards of penguins — and in any case, it is impossible to film natural behaviour when the animals are aware of humans.
The best results are obtained when the cameras look like animals themselves — though that’s easier said than done.
A bevy of New Zealand parrots called keas made short work of a spy-in-a-snowball — the birds have beaks like tin-openers, and the last image transmitted by the doomed lens was of a kea’s beak scything down.
They were much less destructive with a camera hidden inside a lifesize plastic kea . . . until they found its remote control device.
Then the secret agent was uncovered. It’s dangerous work, being a spy camera.
A polar bear is pictured with a snowball camera for Spy In The Snow on BBC1
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