David Attenborough Was Attacked By Rhinos | Earth Day | The Graham Norton Show

and now in your own house you have something no, I don't have one in my no no, but no, you have something from time to time, like what do you have, what do you have, what do you want, well, no Do you know that you have a dinosaur foot? Is it a print you have? I have a dinosaur footprint. Good. Dinosaur footprints are quite common in Texas. Can? You can buy 100 yards of dinosaur footprint. Kevin Hart is already shopping. He was about to ask the price of that femur. I know what I want to do with my money.

This is a good thing to

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off to my friends. There was a millionaire from Texas who became fashionable to buy 50 yards of dinosaur footprints and put them up. You see them in your yard and a Texas so jealous now Kevin Hart so jealous bought 20 yards and put them up and very proud of it and then invited the next door neighbor who was also there to come and look at his dinosaur footprint. So then the visitor walked in, saw these huge footprints around and said my God, what are those? And he said they are dinosaur footprints and the millionaire visitors said he had no idea he had come so close to the house.

It's a pleasure to see you all. and we're excited to see all three of them, but I happen to know Cameron, you're very excited to see Sir David. I am very excited. Yes I am. I told him we were making an aurochs sandwich for Sir David. He's the meat in the middle of our sandwich right now I'll leave you with that, we're his slices of bread, you know what I'm saying, she's a cute little French stick and I'm on top of you, because you, you, I want to be a zoologist, That's what I thought my whole life was going to be.

I wanted to study behavior. To

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you. Wait. I have already learned a lot from you. The things I learned at Backstage. I'm not going to mention them, but I ended up studying animal behavior, it just turned out that they were human animals, actually yeah, you know, as an actor, that's what I do. I study human behavior and many discoveries, yes, many great surprises, but I find it that way. many more surprises when I watch your show yes you should see the outtake. I would love to maybe we can arrange a viewing yes at any time it must be a pleasure for you to film this because it was all filmed in Q yes that is the best thing about The question is that there are plants from all over the world, plants from the top of the alpine mountains, plants from the jungles, from the deserts, they are all there and not far from your house, and no, that must be a great relief, because even your last television series sent you to the north pole and the south pole, yes. , which is very physically demanding it is not good only if you do it in 36 hours but I have to tell you that I did not walk no, I went by helicopter and you have to wait for a helicopter when and you are waiting for it you live in tents, you know, but they are very comfortable tents, warm tents, but um, but then they send you outside and make you do parts on camera very quickly.

No, no, it's true, but it's actually a disaster. You know, if you get the right equipment, there's no problem, you know? But the difficulty is that if things go wrong, if you lose a glove, you might have lost two or three fingers, you know? Yes, but if you don't lose a glove and you do things right, it's a piece of cake because Cameron you did a series about wildlife. I did a little program called Yes, I Did It. I was trying to be like, but me. I'm not like you know, I'm not that good at strangling snakes, well, you know, I've had snakes.

My first pet was when I was 11 years old. My mom and dad said: what do you want for your birthday? I told him I want a snake so I got a snake for my 11th birthday he was a six foot long Florida king snake named Norton are you kidding me really Norton really his name was Norton oh Norton uh , you know, The Honeymooners Jackie gleon, oh yeah, yeah, so Norton was his partner. It was just one of those things that happened in my family, my house, you can't really explain it, but, but yeah, I did a show called Tripping on MTV about seven years ago, where I traveled and went to Jane Goodall. in Tanzania and I had that experience with The Chimpanzees there they know their morning ritual when they get up in the morning and the first thing Alpha does is put his butt on one side and shit in the morning, then he goes and hits the beta male's exit and then go and hit the alpha male, alpha female, I'm sorry, they still have the power to shock in terms of uh, the level of violence and the things that they do, do you control yourself in terms of what you show? or is it this BBC body guy that says it's too gruesome, no, I mean people say we show too much if they saw what we left in The Cutting Room, the editing room that we cut, uh, they'd be Appo, I I mean you.

You know Lions, when a lion catches a wild beast, he eats it alive, you know, and we don't show it, we show it very abbreviated, but you have to be careful what you do because if you cut it all off, then you're telling an Es lie that you're telling fairy tales and natural history shows aren't about fairy tales, they're about the real world, so you have to make a judgment and do it in the middle and really when you're filming The Mating. It gets to a point where you feel like an old purp and you think you should stop filming this now CU, it's gone on too long, see, see, your imagination is running away, have you ever seen birds, mate?

I've seen pigeons, friend, and how quickly it's gone by. There is a lot of fluttering before they get to the moment. They may be showing off each other, but the real population is like that. Actually yes, it is known as the clal kiss. you know Kathy well it's just what I've experienced now it has a name now it has a name thanks for that Cal kiss one of one of uh one of the things that makes your film so distinctive is your voiceovers elevate things , they give it a kind of air of seriousness and enlightenment and we have a little clip of wildlife, I mean wild, there's an animal in it, so if we look at this little clip, you may have seen it before.

Being disappointed, you feel his pain, don't you? If we play that again with some music, some serious music and if you do a little voiceover, see if it rises, okay, here it comes, here it comes. The night falls. the lush grasslands of Croom as the humble tortoise gently mounts his chosen mate and in a dance as old as time raises his head and emits the powerful mating call, so David you know this because you have filmed many things over the years. years. have you been on occasions you have been in all kinds of extraordinary situations we have seen them and we remember them what were what were the moments when you felt in greatest danger where did you really think this could be no no no very often actually I guess the The moment when I really thought that maybe this wasn't going too well was that I was with a great expert, an East African expert who knew big game, he was a great expert on elephants and I was traveling with him in a Land Rover. uh, through Africa and uh, we were driving perfectly happy and I heard some kind of and it disappeared and my knowledgeable friend said, did you hear?

I said what he said right, that noise then I said yes, he said he was a us. they were charged by a rhino I said really oh he said yes it's a dummy charge that's what they do dummy charges they come out and just Char and then if they leave they don't bother at all so they told me oh very interesting and suddenly there was this noise again and this time it ended with a boom and actually the Rover was lifted by its speakers in the back and it shook like this, look, and sure enough, I saw this guy.

I remember his hands on the wheel. White Knuckles saw and we went, then it sounded again, this time it got under the rear wheel and shook and finally the Rhino backed up and pulled out. I said it was a great doll, I thought well and then boom, and this time it was almost destroyed. The Land Rover and all we did was sit there and if you had gotten out that would have been dangerous, but as it was I just hoped the people who built the Land Rover had done everything they could, so that was the worst.

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