David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS (born on May 8, 1926 in London, England) is the presenter of many ground-breaking and award winning BBC wildlife documentaries, and a former senior manager for the BBC. He has travelled widely, originally to collect animals for zoos. He is also an anthropologist and is on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine.

Major series

Foremost among Attenborough's TV documentary series are the trilogy: Life on Earth, The Living Planet and Trials of Life. These examine the world's organisms from the viewpoints of taxonomy, ecology and adaptive fitness respectively.

Related Topics:
Life on Earth - The Living Planet - Trials of Life - Taxonomy - Ecology - Adaptive fitness

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In addition to these series, he presented more specialised surveys including The Private Life of Plants, Life in the Freezer (about life in and around the Arctic and Antarctica), The Life of Birds, The Blue Planet (about life in the oceans) and The Life of Mammals. Life In The Undergrowth, scheduled for later in 2005, will be about invertebrates.

Related Topics:
The Private Life of Plants - Life in the Freezer - Arctic - Antarctica - The Life of Birds - The Blue Planet - The Life of Mammals - Life In The Undergrowth - 2005 - Invertebrate

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Attenborough also narrated the long-running half-hour nature series Wildlife on One on BBC One (variously retitled Wildlife on Two, BBC Wildlife and Natural World depending on the channel it is repeated on), though his role has mainly been to introduce other people's film and he rarely appears on camera.

Related Topics:
Wildlife on One - BBC One

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