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The World About Us: Baobab

on BBC Two England

A film portrait of an African 'upside-down tree' and its wildlife.

The ancient baobab, growing in dry bush country, provides shade, food, and shelter for everything from elephants to bushbabies, honey-guides to fruit bats. It is the hornbills, however, that use the tree in the most remarkable way: the female cements herself inside the nest-hole to rear her young.

This unique film reveals some of the innermost secrets of one of the most fascinating life-cycles in the bird world.
(From Bristol)

Contributors

Narrator:
David Attenborough
Directed and photographed by:
Alan Root
Presented by:
Suzanne Gibbs

BBC Two England

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