I don’t like rats but there’s not much else I don’t like. - David Attenborough

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I don’t like rats but there’s not much else I don’t like.

David Attenborough

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About David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster and writer specialising in natural history who has mainly worked for the BBC since the early 1950s.

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Birth Name: David Frederick Attenborough

Native Name: Sir David Frederick Attenborough

Alternative Names: Sir David Attenborough

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To many of us, however, this is the most delectable of natural sounds. It's an hour before dawn, it's spring, this is an English woodland. All around, the dawn chorus. It's so familiar that perhaps we take it for granted.

Those that live in the air have to fight in the air.

Penguins underwater look somewhat like dolphins, and indeed the two families have similar evolutionary histories. Dolphins are descended from air-breathing land animals, just as penguins are descended from air-breathing flying animals. Both subsequently took to swimming for their food. They became beautifully adapted and streamlined. And now, both are superlative swimmers and highly accomplished fishermen.