Frasi di David Attenborough

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“Faccio documentari di ogni tipo, ma mi piace fare soprattutto quelli che spiegano perché le formiche creano una società come quella in cui vivono. Perché gli uccelli del paradiso hanno quel tipo di piume. La meraviglia, lo splendore, il prodigio, cose così. Questo mi piace mostrare.”

“Gli uccelli sono gli aeronauti più abili che il mondo abbia mai visto. Volano in alto e in basso, a grande velocità e molto lentamente. E sempre con straordinaria precisione e controllo.”

“Even though hunters have a formidable armoury and great skill, most of their hunting trips... end in failure.”

“Those that live in the air have to fight in the air.”

“A spider. Quite big enough and succulent enough to provide a snack for a Scops.”

“Living on the bodies of mammals, oxpeckers manage to get quite a varied diet. A maggot here, a tick there, a little sip of blood, perhaps a little tasty earwax.”

“Once, not so long ago, wild pig were common all over Europe, and they're great diggers and rootlers. So maybe the robin's boldness and friendliness with other kinds of animals started in prehistory, even before human beings arrived in Europe.”

“For a hummingbird, winter comes 365 times a year.”

“[The Kiwi.] It's the bird equivalent of a badger.”

“Sensing the approaching danger, the snail flees. But in a world of snail paces, the conch is something of a Ferrari. It calls for desperate measures. Exhausted by the effort of its last-ditch attempt, the tulip snail is slowly... gunned... down.”

“Its heart that in flight contracted a thousand times a minute, slows until its beat is virtually undetectable. Its body temperature falls dramatically, and its breathing seems to cease altogether. [...] It's hibernating; but for a hummingbird, winter comes 365 times a year.”