Attenborough’s New Wildlife Series

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Sir David Attenborough is back with a new nature series called Parenthood, which explores how animals around the world care for their young.

The six-part series took three years to film and was shot across 23 countries and all six continents.

The show focuses on how different animals protect, feed, and teach their babies. While past shows have focused mainly on baby animals, Parenthood puts the spotlight on the hardworking parents. It reveals how they build homes, find food, and keep their little ones safe from danger.

Each episode looks at parenting in a different environment, such as jungles, oceans, grasslands, and freshwater areas. Viewers will see amazing footage of both familiar and rare creatures, including dolphins, monkeys, spiders, crabs, and the endangered Iberian Lynx in Spain.

The team used new filming techniques to capture never-before-seen behaviour. For example, they followed hippos in the dark using special infrared cameras. One special moment in the series includes a bird called the Pheasant-Tailed Jacana, which was filmed rolling its eggs—something never caught on camera before.

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SMART Prep | Quick Question 210631

At a local reserve near Rotorua, a group of Year 8 students helped with a native planting project. Before the project began, the area was dry and muddy, with only a few struggling grasses left beside the stream. Over several weekends, volunteers planted more than 300 young kānuka, mānuka, and carex plants. They also laid mulch to hold moisture in the soil and placed protective guards around each plant so rabbits would not eat the leaves.

After three months, the students noticed that insects had started returning to the reserve. Small birds were feeding in the new shrubs, and the stream edge looked less bare. The group recorded the growth of the plants and compared it with earlier photos. Their teacher said the project showed how careful work can slowly improve a damaged place.

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