WILD SOUTH - SEX AND GREED: THE BOWERBIRDS

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Year
1994
Reference
TZP138811
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1994
Reference
TZP138811
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Series
WILD SOUTH
Categories
News & Production
Duration
030:34
Production company
NATURAL HISTORY LIMITED
Credits
NARRATOR: David Attenborough
DIRECTOR: Beverly Brown
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: David Reed
PRODUCER: Clifford Frith
PRODUCER: Dawn Frith
PRODUCER: Beverly Brown
TPA: Suzanne Collett

Sophisticated and bizarre, the bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea are perhaps the most remarkable of all birds. They symbolise sexuality in a very human way and the male birds live a frenetic lifestyle, based entirely on sex and greed.