to avoid any more bloody nature documentaries because they are all so ...well..bloody?

[Ormirian]

Yes I know that animals have to kill and be killed. It's nature innit! But FFS can't they do anything else. Back in the 80s it was sex all the time - lions didn't seem to be able to go for 5 minutes without shagging something, ditto bears, hyenas.. the lot really. It was a sort of Joy of Sex for the lower creatures. And OK it was a bit tedious. And sometimes a bit embarrassing if watching with parents. But honest to God it's preferable to now when nothing survives for more than a few seconds without being mauled to death by something with more teeth and a bigger hunger.

I started to leave DS2 to watch Dinosaur Planet alone after finding it too upsetting. You'd find some sort of beast that you managed to find vaguely appealing - and it would be eaten alive. Then a few minutes respite....and something else slightly cute would get ripped to shreds.

Heaved a sigh of relief when Dino planet finished and settled down to watch Frozen Planet..... Bye bye infact buffalo. And bye bye (nearly) penguin.

Bring back the animal SEX! Please.

YABU you can't make nature change what it is. Animals eat each other, even the cute fluffy ones.

What about the seals? Swim faster.

Animals eat other animals. Even we do albeit in a more sanitised fashion). That's life!

Thats why I don't mind watching that nature program they had/have on cbeebies, I know it's going to be fluffy all the way

I can't watch ones with actual nature taking place, I'm not into all that brutality.

Those whales were amazing though.

Oh god the poor seal being pulled backwards into the sea

It is nature, and if you are watching the new Attenborough on BBC1 at the moment, it is bloody amazing camera work. Yes a bit gory, but it is still very interesting.

That shot of the seal being slowly pulled in...

And now giant jellyfish and enormous sea spiders.

A sea spider that legs span half a metre?! Fuck me, I'll never go swimming in those parts.

Yes I know it's NATURE! But surely they must do something other than kill and each other? WHat's wrong with focussing on herbivores eating something for a change?

That penguin was plainly a risk taker and got away because the sea-lion was rubbish! The Weddell seal was unfortunate.

What about bloke polar bear though? Got a shag or twenty but boy did h have to work for it!

The weird thing is ds 4 has been going on about a giant sea spider and I told him there was no such thing.

Ormirian - they're looking at the polar regions - not many herbivores as not many errr herbs

eat each other?

It makes me so glad I am a human being. Not that we are exactly perfect!

But surely they must do something other than kill and each other?

Not really other than sleep and shag... and there would probably be a barrage of complaints about animal porn if they showed too much of the latter and complaints of how boring it is with the former....

Seaweed! FFS there must be seaweed. They can eat that!

Don't they have tofu? Or quorn?

If the next episode is tofu grazing herbivores I may watch a DVD

No tofu, but i just saw in twitter that the next David Attenborough series will be Leopards do Swan Lake.

YANBU it's like watching a soap because of the commentaries. I'd prefer less drama and more facts but I'm an old fogey.

Good point camel. If they didn't keep making us emote about the animals it wouldn't be so distressing to see them eaten by inches. Let's go back to the hushed tones and the emotional distance.

YABU!
To quote someone or other, "Nature, red in tooth and claw"! What else do you expect nature to do? There is nothing else to do other than eat sleep and shag if you dont have opposable thumbs, lets face it, we dont see many walruses posting in AIBU, now do we?

@ ColdSancerre!

It was Tennyson. In Memoriam.

And yes I get the point

Quorn for animals.....picturing myself on Dragons Den. I think Duncan would go for it.