The Crow That Uses Traffic Lights | David Attenborough | Parkinson on BBC
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David Attenborough has spent forty years going to lovely places and watching extraordinary things. He does not consider this difficult work. He is, he admits, very spoiled. In this conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about the penduline tit, a small bird in Eastern Europe whose female hides her eggs one by one to prevent her mate from leaving, and reveals all six only after she has already found a replacement. He talks about crows in a Japanese city that collect walnuts, wait for the traffic lights to turn red, place the nuts under lorry wheels, and collect them once the lights go green again. By this point Billy Connolly, who is also on the sofa, is laughing along with him. Then there is Nepal. Four days on a skittish elephant looking for a rhinoceros. When one finally appeared, Attenborough discovered his microphone transmitter had fallen off. The rhinoceros was thirty yards away. The recordist told him to get down and walk towards the signal. He would tell him when he wa
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