by Jonathan Kingdon
A cheetah's snarl leaps out of the film into a painting, three pieces of junk turn into a hornbill, and a revolving picture captures the tumbling flight of a lilac-breasted roller.
As both zoologist and artist Jonathan Kingdon challenges our way of looking at animals, and offers new answers to some intriguing questions. Is the zebra striped to dazzle or deceive? How did the elephant 'get his trunk?' Why does the helmeted guinea-fowl wear a mitre? Whether we look at aardvark, giraffe, bat or zebra, our eyes are opened to new ways of seeing.
BBC Bristol
Book, Kilimanjaro: Animals in a Landscape, £5.95 from booksellers.
Exhibition: Kilimanjaro: Animals in a Landscape, Barbican Centre, London, 21 October-4 December 1983, 10.0 am-11.0 pm daily; from midday Sundays