Originally posted by Loletteaparently a Rhino called "Stingray" bit his head off. 😞
Ooh that man i always see in discovery channel and national geographic channel who plays with the animals. I always like his show and he has guts to be able to do this thing with animals.
I didnt know he died, just heard from tv and here. I didnt read whole thread? But how he die. was it animal that bite him?
Originally posted by sonhouse? ? ?
As opposed to the physicist outstanding in his field....
Jacques Cousteau was not exactly a French equivalent to David Attenborough, although they're both of great stature and both have produced some wonderful documentaries, I'm a great fan of Attenborough myself and loved to watch the Cousteau documentaries whislt growing up.
David Attenborough is a naturalist and Cousteau was an oceanographer (researcher), more specifically. I was not trying to denigrate what Wheely wrote, by the way. 😳
Originally posted by FrenchQueenThe major point of Irwin's method, be it entertainment, was that it made lots of people realize that snakes aren't the slimey-creepy wothless wonders of nature that they truly are. He made people aware of conservation, even for cocodiles that somtimes eat people (a natural thing for them to do)...Irwin wasn't perfect, and he was a "showman" at times, especially with his "baby meets croc" stunt, which was stupid, but we all make stupid mistakes. The world is a better place conservationally-speaking because of Irwin and his wife Terry....and Zoo Australlia...the lady with hairy balls, what's her name?...oh, Greer...she is a moron to the max!
Fair enough. I, for one, find people's reaction to his death and the way they've put him on this pedestal nauseating and over the top; I agree that Greer's attack on him just after his death is a little insensitive but she raises some interesting and pertinent points about his approach to wildlife and conservation and the nature of entertainment.
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Originally posted by FrenchQueenI didn't mean to suggest they did the same work but that they have a similar style. They produced works of art.
David Attenborough is a naturalist and Cousteau was an oceanographer (researcher), more specifically. I was not trying to denigrate what Wheely wrote, by the way. 😳
Originally posted by FrenchQueenPhysicist out standing in his field? magnetic field........
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Jacques Cousteau was not exactly a French equivalent to David Attenborough, although they're both of great stature and both have produced some wonderful documentaries, I'm a great fan of Attenborough myself and loved to watch the Cousteau documentaries whislt growing up.
David Attenborough is a naturalist and Cousteau was an oceanographer (researcher), more specifically. I was not trying to denigrate what Wheely wrote, by the way. 😳