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Wildlife Showcase: Colony Z

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on BBC Two England

A series of programmes featuring natural history films from other countries.

In 1936 Lance Richdale began a remarkable study of the yellow-eyed penguins of New Zealand's Otago Peninsula. Richdale's study was to last him 18 years - focusing on individuals rather than populations.
In time he gave a number to every bird, and a name to each colony. But in Colony Z there was an old male penguin who was to become better known to him than all the others, he was Z12.
This film by NZTV is a recreation of Richdale's life in the summer of 1940 as he followed the fortunes of Z12 and his mate Z115 in their final season together.
BBC Bristol
Wildlife magazine on Ceefax page 262

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