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Following on immediately after the main Life in Cold Blood programmes, Under the Skin - five ten-minute specials - reveal some of the secrets of the production process. In the first programme David... Attenborough travels to Madagascar in search of a reptile he has been waiting nearly half a century to see. He first visited Madagascar in the early 1960s filming for the series Zooquest and was taken with the incredible variety of chameleons he saw there. He had read of one, the Pygmy Leaf Chameleon, the world's smallest reptile, but he never managed to see one. Now, forty six years later he is going to get another chance. This time though he has the help of chameleon biologist Bertrand Razafimahatratra, and it's a good job too - because these tiny chameleons are barely the size of your thumbnail.
Following on immediately after the main Life in Cold Blood programmes, Under the Skin - five ten-minute specials - reveal some of the secrets of the production process. In the first programme David... Attenborough travels to Madagascar in search of a reptile he has been waiting nearly half a century to see. He first visited Madagascar in the early 1960s filming for the series Zooquest and was taken with the incredible variety of chameleons he saw there. He had read of one, the Pygmy Leaf Chameleon, the world's smallest reptile, but he never managed to see one. Now, forty six years later he is going to get another chance. This time though he has the help of chameleon biologist Bertrand Razafimahatratra, and it's a good job too - because these tiny chameleons are barely the size of your thumbnail.
| Series: | Life in cold blood |
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| First transmission date: | 2008 |
| Published: | 2008 |
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| Duration: | 00:09:22 |
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| Producer: | Catherine McCarthy |
| Presenter: | David Attenborough |
| Contributors: | Sir David Attenborough; Bertrand Razafimahatratra |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | OU Website: http://www.open2.net/lifeincoldblood/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Chameleons; Madagascar; Reptiles |
| Production number: | NBRX123F |
| Videofinder number: | 7668 |
| Available to public: | no |
