David Attenborough delighted over adder skin in bizarre BBC Breakfast interview

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BBC Breakfast held a bizarre chat with David Attenborough on the edge of the lake – despite the nature documentarian being on Zoom.

The 94-year-old spoke to BBC science editor David Shukman for his latest series, The Year Earth Changed, with the pair speaking in a field in Chartwell, Kent.

However, Attenborough wasn’t actually present and was instead projected onto a screen in order to speak to him.

At the start of the chat, Shukman also showed off a ‘gift’ from a camera man, and beamed: ‘I’ve just been handed a bit of adder skin.’

Smiling as he showed off the strip of skin, Attenborough impressively responded: ‘Oh how nice!

‘Charming, what friends you have.’

Most give people a box of chocolates or something, but each to their own.

Despite their strange set up, the pair soon got talking about the new series, which explores the positive impact coronavirus lockdown has had on the environment.

‘The natural world has gone on better without us,’ Attenborough said, explaining that animals have begun to improve and rehabilitate when left to their own devices.

‘When we retreated, we discovered that penguins would be doing much better than they have been for decades,’ he said.

‘You should allow animals to have more of a chance – and that applies all over the place.’

It was also revealed humpback whales in Alaska have been able to communicate with each other better thanks to fewer hips being around them in the ocean.

In a press release for the new series, Apple TV+ said: ‘In the one-hour special, viewers will witness how changes in human behaviour — reducing cruise ship traffic, closing beaches a few days a year, identifying more harmonious ways for humans and wildlife to co-exist — can have a profound impact on nature.’

The documentary is described as ‘a love letter to planet Earth, highlighting the ways nature bouncing back can give us hope for the future’.

BBC Breakfast airs weekdays from 6am on BBC One.

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