Original air date: 17 October 1990
Selected material:
The spectacled bear, and introductory words for the episode
A spectacled bear looking for food (leaves). Being a leaf eating animal in a jungle it might seem easy, but it isn’t. “One of the problems that faces us and all animals is finding enough to eat. Being animals and not plants, we only feed on other living organisms, and, by and large, other living organisms don’t welcome that.” Attenborough’s own introductory words.
Insects are the greatest leaf eaters among animals
A single leaf with large parts eaten by insects
Coming up:
“… But it’s only a short step between robbing your victim and killing him, for the pirate to become a hunter. And that raises a completely new set of problems. It’s those that we’ll be looking at in the next programme.“