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David Attenborough's Zoo Quest in ColourIn pictures...

The best of David Attenborough’s early adventures as never seen before – in colour.

  • Crossing the river en route to the team’s first destination
  • A Picathartes fledgeling – the first ever to be brought back to the UK.
  • A chameleon on a branch
  • David Attenborough plays back recordings to astonished villagers – they have never heard themselves on a tape recorder before
  • Villagers taking part in a welcoming ceremony for the Zoo Quest team
  • The Zoo Quest team landing in the Mazaruni, with Akawaio boy watching on
  • David Attenborough and Jack Lester with a capybara (one of the village pets)
  • David Attenborough and Jack Lester searching for the hoatzin bird
  • Akawaio Indian boys, Carlton and Codrice, practising with their blowpipes
  • David Attenborough chases a giant anteater
  • David Attenborough with Benjamin the bear - who became known as ‘the Zoo Quest bear’ (a Malaysian sun bear)
  • Girl dancing in Barong Village Festival
  • David with bottle of water – the water was warm and full of mosquito larvae!
  • David Attenborough (carrying coconuts) on Komodo
  • The first ever colour footage of Komodo dragons in the wild
  • Girl dancing in Barong Village Festival in Bali. Split screen to show the difference between black and white and colour footage

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