Sir David Attenborough reveals the world of mammals and the secrets of their success.
Tigers, chimps, dolphins, and bears, these are just some of our favourite mammals and they are all in this series. But we’ve also got tenrecs, sifakas and echidnas. Some of the less well-known, but equally fantastic mammalian stars, that also feature in this series celebrating the success of a remarkable group of animals.Around 66 million years ago an asteroid struck the earth and wiped out around three quarters of all animal life.
It’s in the shadows that they honed some of the skills that helped them become so successful, including the leopard’s incredible night vision, letting it leap through tree top branches with ease in pursuit of baboons, or the remarkable hearing of the Fennec fox, like a detectorist, listening for hidden treasure in the sand, although in this case it’s for food not gold.
Nevertheless, this is one mammal that I really wanted to feature - however hard it would be. And it proved to be incredibly hard, requiring two separate trips and 50 days in the field. Even then, we came perilously close to failing.
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