Sir David Attenborough has "never cried while filming" one of his nature documentaries.
The 92-year-old broadcaster can’t help but be moved by the plight of some of the animals that he has filmed over the years but he has never shed a tear because he accepts what happens is integral to the balance of the natural world.
In an interview with The Times newspaper, he said: "I’ve never cried while filming, but I suppose I cry more easily nowadays. Well, tears don’t pour down my cheeks, but I blinked hard on November 11."
Attenborough has also addressed the controversy surrounding new BBC One series ‘Dynasties’, which he voices, which has drawn criticism due to the camera crew’s decision to help a group of emperor penguins and their chicks.
The animals had become trapped in an icy ravine and the onlooking crew dug out some steps so they could escape and survive.
Attenborough believes that in this instance the crew were justified in their decision because it wasn’t a predator and prey situation.
He rationalised: "I never ever said they shouldn’t have done that.
What I said was that you have to be very careful in these situations.
If you see a leopard stalking a fawn, and you’re able to save the fawn by helping it get away, you’d probably only drive it off to a different area so that its mother wouldn’t know where it was. So these things have to be handled very carefully. But if it’s an inorganic thing, as it was in this case, then why not?"
The next episode of ‘Dynasties’, which follows the fortunes of a pride of lions, will be shown on BBC One at 8pm on Sunday (25.11.18).
David Attenborough has ‘never cried’ during filming
