BBC Wild Burma.
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or maybe it is an expression of surprise: "Great hornbills! What on earth are those things!?"
Surely not! He's supposed to be a scientist isn't he? There were shots of G.I Hornbills in the same or another of the progs so they should know the difference...
I haven't seen it, but are the hornbills and the scientist actually the same shot? It is common in modern crappy documentaries to put two random bits of footage together for the purposes of the storyline. So a shot of the scientists actually seeing great hornbills, and then an unrelated shot of pied hornbills to show what the scientist is "seeing".
One of the crew set up a sandpit to try and find tiger tracks, hornbills kept coming and using it as a dustbath, erasing the tracks.
They were showing camera trap footage of the hornbills before moving on to the tigers, so he probably was talking about the footage. I assumed he meant the hornbills were nice, not that they were Great Hornbills.
Great Hornbills does sound like a good exclamation though...I might have to use it.
They were showing camera trap footage of the hornbills before moving on to the tigers, so he probably was talking about the footage. I assumed he meant the hornbills were nice, not that they were Great Hornbills.
Great Hornbills does sound like a good exclamation though...I might have to use it.
I am pretty sure he knew what they were. He said 'Great....Hornbills' either in appreciation, or in mock frustration because they had messed up the sandpit with their bathing. The BBC doesn't usually make bad mistakes like that and this series still had the usual quality BBC stamp even if it was rather thin on the wildlife.
I think I shall refer to this genre in future as the 'cameratrap' shows....
