New beetle species named after David Attenborough
Legendary naturalist that he is, it's no surprise Sir David Attenborough has been honoured taxonomically on many an occasion. And now a new beetle...
9 years agoWhen it comes to presenting wildlife documentaries, we all know you can't outdo David Attenborough – but this rowdy bird of paradise has a pretty good go at it. Thanks to all of its squawking and melodramatic tail-flouncing, it took several takes for Sir David to get the sequence just right for his latest project 'Birds of Paradise'. But the legendary naturalist is used to dealing with these avian show-offs – he first tracked them across the mountains of New Guinea for the Zoo Quest franchise all the way back in the 1950s.
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