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Liz Bonnin and Steve Backshall will be co-presenting the exciting new three part live series Big Blue Live from the BBC’s Natural History Unit, co-produced by PBS.
Live from Monterey Bay, California they will be getting up close and personal to some amazing creatures. While Steve seeks out migrating whales and dolphins from a boat in the bay, Liz will delve into the science of how the journey of these animals takes place from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The Western Ghats of India are home to one of the world’s greatest tropical rainforests and a staggering number of floral and faunal species, which is some- what confounding when you consider the 400 million people who also live here. Somehow, some of the most biodiverse wildlife on the planet manages to survive among a fragmented landscape of forests, plantations and villages.
For the past four years presenter Liz Bonnin has reported from all over the world for Stargazing Live. We talk to her about her experiences.
An interview with Liz on LSRfm.com Weekly Wildlife Watch about her incredible life as a student studying biochemistry, biology and tigers as well as her career in television. We all know her from fascinating programmes such as Bang Goes The Theory, CatWatch, Stargazing Live, Super Smart Animals, Countrywise and Autumnwatch – Liz even finds the time to train for a marathon to raise money for the endangered Amur tiger – for more information on how YOU can also make a difference, please visit: www.justgiving.com/Liz-Bonnin/.
"We do animals a great disservice by not wanting to compare their capabilities, traits or emotions with ours.”
The Bonobo story is one of many that Bonnin explores in her impressive new series to press home her view that we seriously underestimate the intellectual prowess of animals. Their problem-solving skills – nuts cracked open with rocks, for instance – are well documented, but are animals in touch with their emotions as well? Bonnin believes they are in a way we’re reluctant to acknowledge.
