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The Natural World

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on BBC Two England

The Deciding Factor
Why did the chicken cross the road? Whatever the answer, it involved a decision, perhaps crucial to its survival. Making the right decisions is as vital to animals as it is to us. How is it done?
Presented with a choice of actions most of us, surprisingly, make the right one where our lives are concerned; and that goes for animals too. Life's decision-making mechanisms have been honed by millions of years of evolution in octopus and crab, cuckoo and reed-warbler, homeless honey-bees, amorous dung-flies, motorway rooks or blackberrying ramblers. Now you must decide to watch ... Narrator Barry Paine
Film editor CHARLES ALDRIDGE Produced by DAN FREEMAN Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol
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Contributors

Narrator:
Barry Paine
Editor:
Charles Aldridge
Produced By:
Dan Freeman
Source: Radio Times

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