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for my co-presenter. I said to allow plenty of time for the journey so | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
when you get here your calm and relaxed. This is a brand-new series. | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
We need to make a good impression. Whatever you do, do not be late. He | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
was like, do not worry, it will be fine. Hang on, can you hear | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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something. They weren't me about him. Hello. Hello.Where have you | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
been? The traffic was a nightmare. The traffic? I am here now. Shall we | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
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brand new series. I am Naomi Wilkinson. I am Tim Warwood. Your | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
Saturday mornings are about to get wild. Our mission is to get you up | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
to discover the weird and wonderful wild things outside your door. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
will be broadcasting from a different location every week. | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
are starting our series in the stunning mountains. This is real. We | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
are in North Wales at Plas Y Brenin. We are right here. Over the course | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
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of the next hour, we will deliver it to you. We have a gang of animals to | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
help us out, it is our audience. They are so lovely. Heading amongst | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
them, you may spot Radzi. I am over here and we are very excited. The | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
audience are excited. I may have to keep my eye on some of them. Some of | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
them are ready taking advantage of the activities we have got. We have | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
guys in kayaks. More will be revealed later. In the meantime, I | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
am pleased to introduce to you and mountain bike legend. Chris Doney. | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
Check him out. And Rough Rider, Mr Phil Hall. Look at that thing. We | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
have a whole host of wild animals along for the ride as well. We have | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
all of that, and mountains. This week's wild thing, Grace, ropes and | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
her friends to skill great tits in search of adventure. Tim goes in | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
search of a UK-based sport to fulfil his love of the mountains. Naomi | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
meet some aerial predators who really do have a head for heights. | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
And we meet a young man who likes nothing more than capturing wildlife | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
on camera. We have got mountains to fit in. We have already used that | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
joke. You cannot do it twice. Let's start off with an awesome animal. It | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
is a giant of the skies, high-speed hunter that always has its eye on | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
the prize. A snake? It is not a snake. It is a high flyer. The | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
golden eagle used to be a common sight in Britain but they were | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
heavily hunted and their population has plummeted. Thankfully, 60 years | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
ago, it became illegal to kill them and numbers are slowly on the up. | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
The golden eagle is a massive bird with a wingspan around the same | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
height as your front door and the tale that allows it to make the | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
slightest change in direction. Their eyesight is up to eight times more | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
powerful than our own so they can pick up Ray from over a mile away, | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
making the golden eagle pretty perfect predator. Look, we have a | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
golden eagle on our wild set, along with Bert handler Graham. Welcome. | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
This is Sebastien. The bird in the film just took out a fox. Do they | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
really take prey that size? They are the most some are born predator. | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
This one is two years old. He is not quite at full size. He's going to | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
develop muscle. Is that what they would normally eat? Yes, the hunt | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
from Fox's right through to hearers and rabbits. It was huge, I could | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
not believe it. They have even been known to take Wilson in the wild in | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
Russia. Can I see his wingspan? Look at that. Can I please have a go at | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
holding him? Of course you can.Is this going to be safe, will he sends | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
my fear? He may little bit.I am looking forward to meeting him. It's | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
the heavy? Yes. They are massive. They are details of the trade. That | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
is what he uses to grab prey. They are so immense, the pressure he can | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
exert through them. About �200 per square inch. How does that compare | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
to what we would no? The human jaw crunches down at about �600 per | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
square inch. Can we see his eyes? Yes. You are beautiful. Tell about | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
his eyes? They are about eight times more powerful than yours or mine. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
he all right when that happens. Yes. He just wants to fly. But did | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
not hurt him? Not at all. His eyes are so sensitive. He is scanning | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
around. We cannot fly him, but we do have a close cousin of him that is | :06:58. | :07:08. | |
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in the sky, I believe, somewhere. There he is down there. This is one | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
of the family. He has a very deep wing beat. He has a very wide wing | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
beat, so he can survey the territory. You can see him going | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
over the water. Look at him using those wings. He is looking at home | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
in the mountains. Thank you for bringing your birds in. We think | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
they are awesome. What do you think over their? What an incredible | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
creature. What do we think of the Eagle? It is really cool. In a | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
word, it was awesome. That is good enough from me. Most breeding pairs | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
in this country have made their homes into particular places. You | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
can spot them on our map in the North of Ireland and in the | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
Highlands of Scotland. If you're going to be there on holiday, keep | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
your eyes to the skies and take a photo. We have been asking you to | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
send in your photos of you having fun in the mountains. This is our | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
first picture. It is from a boy from Scotland. This is claiming in | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
France. I am loving your work. The next picture is from Lauren and | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
Jason. They are enjoying the great outdoors in Scotland. We are hearing | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
the mountains for the views. We have used money cannot buy. If you have a | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
photo, perhaps you have been inspired by something you have seen | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
on the show, then do send it in to us. Here is the e-mail address. | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
Include your name and the name of a parent or guardian as well as a | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
contact number so we can get hold of you. You may have noticed that our | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
audience are still out there on their kayaks enjoying ourselves. -- | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
enjoying themselves. They will be helping me out with the challenge | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
later. I'm going to keep my eye on Radzi. I do not like what he has got | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
up his sleeve. We promised you wildlife, but we also promised you | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
wild adventure and next guest has that by the bucket load. Let's see | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
the man in action. Chris Doney is one of the world's leading freestyle | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
mountain bike trial riders. He has British, European and world titles | :09:33. | :09:42. | |
to his name. He started to trial rider five years old when he put his | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
feet firmly on the pedals. Now he spends hours perfecting every | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
trick, spin and flip. Trial riding as a test of balance and skill to | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
the extreme, and Chris Doney is a gravity dividing -- gravity defying | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
master of the mountains. Just look at this. Ladies and gentlemen, in | :10:09. | :10:19. | |
the flesh, Mr Chris Doney. You have a look on your face like that is the | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
first time you have done that. That looks pretty dangerous. Do your mum | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
and dad know you do this for a living? Sort of. They think I am out | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
for a leisurely ride. It is fantastic. How did you get into | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
riding? My dad used to ride. He was a top rider and motor cycles. I | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
started when I was five and moved across to push bikes and just stayed | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
on them. Was it easy, making the transition from motor bikes? Yes, | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
lots of people do that, but most people do it the other way. You can | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
transfer a lot of the skills. easy is it to get into, where do you | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
start? Just done any bike, they run bikes, BMX is, mountain bikes. Start | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
with the basics. As you get Egger and stronger, you progress. Do you | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
ever get scared? Yes, a little bit, but I do not let on. Have you ever | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
had any big crashes? Yes, a few, broken ankles. Just practice if you | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
want to get into it. It is all about practice. Start with the easy stuff | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
and get the fundamental stuff learned. Then you can move onto | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
killer stuff. You have brought lots of obstacles. Can you give us a | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
demonstration? Yes.In the flesh, it is Chris Doney. Here we go. Just | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
look how thin this bug is that he's coming across. Yes. Onto his back | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
wheel. Around of applause. You can hear the squeaking of his brakes. He | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
has such control over the bike. There is just one gear on the bike. | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
He has lots of power in order to do this. Can you imagine trying to do | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
this on your way to your local shops to get a loaf of bread? He is a good | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
eight feet above the floor. Are you all right? Yes. At sorry. I will not | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
distract you any more. It is quite high up here. Yes, onto the top of | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
the van. Now he is up on the balance beam. It is about five inches wide. | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
It is ten feet up. It is high.Do you want some in Courage went or. | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
APPLAUSE He is on to the back wheel. Chris | :13:12. | :13:22. | |
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Doney, everyone next Commissioner Mark OK. -- Chris Doney, everyone. | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
What can you teach me? I think I can teach you to bunny hop. You need to | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
come in at walking pace, knees bent, feet level. Lean back and pull up | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
with your knees. It is easy. That went in and straight out again. That | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
is fine. Here we go. Just lean back and give it some welly. This bike is | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
massive. Perfect. It probably did not look pretty. It was massive. | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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Guys, come on. We have some guys that want to learn. Turn around and | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
come back through again. It is not just Chris Doney with a sense of | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
adventure. Me as well. I like to get out and about in the mountains. What | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
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you're about to witness now is my I was not all that bad. But it is | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
not just my lack of skills. There is another problem in the UK, no | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
snow. I need as sport that I can still do in the mountains. Where I | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
can do tricks and still have a lot of speed. Where am I going to find | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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that? Mountain boarding! Hang on! At just 22 years old Matt is the | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
world freestyle mountain boarding champion. He has been riding and | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
honing his tricks for eight years. Today he is going to put me through | :15:51. | :16:01. | |
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my paces. Here we go. You go first. OK. If I want to turn right I put | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
the weight on my heels. To turn left, I put the weight on my toes. | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
It is simple. He made that look easy. Here we go. It feels | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
extremely fast already. Just keep turning. You will come to a top. | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
Perfect. Not too bad for a first attempt. But the next time I want | :16:38. | :16:47. | |
to be a bit more ambitious. Matt is showing me how to do a jump. That | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
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was textbook! Here we go. I am going fast! Yes! That was perfect. | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
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That was huge. Definitely.You are at the King of tricks. Show me some | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
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moves. This is how it is done. Check this out. This is the front | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
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flip. He is good! You are world champion. How did that come about? | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
I went out to Moscow last summer in July. Mike tricks were fortunately | :17:53. | :18:03. | |
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good enough to give me first place. My grand parents are proud of me. | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
They are great fans and like to here about the tricks. It is my | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
turn to have a go. Carving up the slope. I seem to be getting the | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
hang of this! But do not speak too soon. Maybe I should leave the | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
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tricks to the experts. This is all very well. But what I love about | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
snowboarding is you're out in the mountains. And these are called | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
mountain boards. Are we ready to go to the mountain's? I think we are. | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
I guess we will find out. Known as a free riding this is mountain | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
boarding at its purest. Hiking to the top, finding new lines. This is | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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what it is all about Farr's stop --. We are pretty high. Just look at | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
that field. I am pretty nervous. I was fined on that smoke rolling | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
grass in the training area. But now this looks like a sheer cliff face | :19:26. | :19:36. | |
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covered in moss. You can go first. Nice wide turns. It is a different | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
kettle of fish when you buy the one riding down there. It is really | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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bumpy. There are rocks down here. I am going off! Into the bracken. | :20:05. | :20:15. | |
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That is huge. It is all about cleaning. Right into the poo at! It | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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has gone into my mouse. That was ridiculous! -- my mouth. Matt is a | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
champion at this. He is world champion. I am an absolute beginner. | :20:49. | :20:59. | |
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He is going to hit the jump. My goodness! It feels as if I'm going | :21:00. | :21:10. | |
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6000 miles an hour. Tell my mum and dad I love them! Good stuff. | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
almost ran me over. I have got to say, thank you very much for | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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introducing me to mountain boarding. My pleasure. One more try? Let's go. | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
You did incredibly well to land in the one pile of poo in the hold | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
onto it! And throughout the series we're both going to be getting out | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
there having crazy adventures. That was an excellent start. It was | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
immense. It was a little like snowboarding but really difficult | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
to stop. Thankfully I had Matt to guide me through. He is a world | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
champion. Before we meet our next guests let us take a look at them | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
out in the wild. There are four members of the Camlough family at | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
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home in the mountains. The alpaca are one of them. They reside in the | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
Andes and there have more than prepared for the harsh environment. | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
They can keep a firm grip on the steep and rocky mountains. And | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
they're thick coat helps protect them against bitterly cold mountain | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
temperatures. It is this high quality coat that has seen them | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
becoming domesticated all around the globe. Making them a world wide | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
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one go. I am here with some fluffy friends. The alpaca. This one is in | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
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two weeks old. Incredibly she was on her feet just one hour after she | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
was born. She is just so cute. But I'm keeping my eye on the adults. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Because they have a problem of spitting at one another to show | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
their dominance. It is not exactly a spit, more commonly it is the | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
acidic contents of their stomach. They have got three Chambers in | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
their stomach to help them to extract the nutrients. So if they | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
have been chewing on the grass all day what comes back up is quite | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
horrible and smelly. So I hope they will be behaving themselves. There | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
coat is incredibly soft. That is what makes them a popular choice | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
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for breeding. This one, her fleece will make two or three super soft | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
jumpers. It is those fibres in the coat that allow them to withstand | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
very cold temperatures. But it is not just the alpaca which have | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
adapted, mountains around the world support be wide range of wildlife | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
and some of them have evolved clever ways of surviving. The | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
mountain lion and snow leopard both have referred to protect them from | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
the cold. The Snow Leopard also has a long tail for balance. This | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
insight does not need a jacket. It has a special protein acting like | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
anti-freeze so that it can survive extremely low temperatures. And | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
these make the most of the mountain air by having special blood vessels | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
to allow them to save their energy. And this is the jumping spider of | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
the Himalayas. It survives by hunting insects blown up the | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
mountain by the strong wind. These East have glad that carries as much | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
oxygen as possible. -- these keys. And here in Wales we have mountain | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
goats and they have special feat that allow them to scale up the | :25:48. | :25:58. | |
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rocks. It never ceases to amaze me how animals adapt to cope with the | :25:58. | :26:08. | |
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environment. Talking of adaption of! It is a boiling hot sunny day! | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
I am a bit hot. Throughout this series we are going to be looking | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
at the wild wonder is that we have got in the UK. Things that could be | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
lurking close to your back door. We will be uncovering some pretty | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
freaky facts about the things that surround us every day. But which is | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
going to be the strangest wonder of them all? We are about to find out | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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My favourite part of the show. Get yourselves ready and prepared. I am | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
about to explain what is about to come up. Each week we will choose | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
one Wilde contender and there will be a head to head over three rounds. | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
They have to convince us that there contender is top dog. Or pop insect. | :27:20. | :27:30. | |
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Are we ready? Yes, we are. Today I am fighting for the mosquito. He is | :27:33. | :27:43. | |
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pretty ingenious. I am fighting for the wasp. They have an important | :27:43. | :27:53. | |
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role to play. Without further ado time for round one. Speedie. | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
are probably familiar with the noise of the mosquito which is a | :27:59. | :28:09. | |
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result of their wings beating so fast. The wasp, its flight speed is | :28:11. | :28:20. | |
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5.59 mph. The mosquito can fly as well. How fast?1.2 mph. At the end | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
of that round, no doubt about it. That Wasps goes straight into the | :28:36. | :28:46. | |
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lead. Time for round two. What is the point? The wasp is anomalous | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
for up and eat just about everything. There are master of | :28:59. | :29:07. | |
pest controllers. There would take on a flight or Caterpillar. And | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
they do not even bother us until the end of the sum up when their | :29:11. | :29:18. | |
other food sources are drying up. There are billions of mosquitoes. A | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
fantastic resource for all kinds of animals. Amphibians and birds and | :29:22. | :29:28. | |
spiders. And they also help to pollinate some plants. Like the | :29:28. | :29:38. | |
orchid. Well Tim came out swinging. But mosquito is now level-pegging. | :29:38. | :29:48. | |
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We're going into the deciding round. The knockout round. Let me tell you | :29:49. | :29:56. | |
something. I am going to play like Super Sense card. The mosquito has | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
super sensitive hairs on its antenna and they detect tiny | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
changes in the environment. And they can smell human chemicals to | :30:05. | :30:15. | |
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suck out your blood. The wasp, it's not got card is that they have | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
mastered designers. World-class architects. They grouped together | :30:20. | :30:28. | |
to build their own home. They bite off pieces of wood and duet with | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
their survival. They built it up until it is strong enough to | :30:33. | :30:43. | |
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again. Stay tuned to see who wins that one. In the meantime, walk this | :31:12. | :31:18. | |
way. If you're out and about and you see any wild wonders when you're out | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
and about, see if you can snap a photograph. If you manage to get a | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
good while Clive Sharp, send it into us this address. Send it to us with | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
your name, and the name of a parent or guardian and the phone number. It | :31:34. | :31:40. | |
might appear on the show next week. Send them in. I am feeling fine. | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
Whatever. We are about to speak to him and he needs no encouragement | :31:46. | :31:56. | |
:31:56. | :31:56. | ||
whatsoever to get out there with his camera. Have a look at this. My name | :31:56. | :32:01. | |
is Josh, I am 15 years old and I love British wildlife. What I really | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
love is looking for the secret side of nature. I have been taking photos | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
for the last five years and I am going to share my top tips for | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
capturing wildlife in a completely different way. This is our back | :32:15. | :32:23. | |
garden. It is no more of a mini nature reserve. I have been allowed | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
to have this part of the garden by my family. We have frogs, newts, | :32:29. | :32:36. | |
toads, dragonfly larvae. You can hear buzzing in the summer, which is | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
nice. Taking good photographs is about trying to look at the world in | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
a different way. One of my favourite things to do is to get more | :32:46. | :32:51. | |
inventive using household items. I cannot afford underwater housings so | :32:51. | :32:57. | |
I have just used this fish tank. I put my camera inside and load it | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
into the pond so it takes underwater shots. You do not need expensive | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
equipment. This is my camera. You can pop this in your pocket and take | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
it anywhere. There is one animal that comes here that is really | :33:14. | :33:21. | |
active at night and tonight I will try and film it. This is actually my | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
Playhouse. I take it over when I got more into photography. We have this | :33:26. | :33:31. | |
material here so we are invisible to wildlife. I will pick this camera | :33:31. | :33:38. | |
trap on the fork. They passed this week, the foxes. We will see if we | :33:38. | :33:44. | |
can get one when it walks through. I would retreat back to the hide and | :33:44. | :33:54. | |
Seek we can get some views of foxes. With wildlife, you can never really | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
count on them to be there, so you have just got to wait and see. When | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
you see a fox, you forget about the hours of waiting because you get the | :34:04. | :34:10. | |
privilege of seeing the habits of an individual. Another tip, when you're | :34:10. | :34:17. | |
waiting for things, if you close your eyes, it makes you more | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
sensitive to sign. That is a really good way of watching foxes. | :34:23. | :34:33. | |
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Sometimes you cannot actually see them. That is really great. We have | :34:38. | :34:42. | |
got a little bit of film. I think it might have gone round to the camera | :34:42. | :34:48. | |
trap, so we will get some nice close-ups maybe, off his face. It is | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
amazing what you can capture with patience and dedication. It was | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
really successful and I got some nice film of the fox. I will go back | :34:56. | :35:05. | |
indoors now. He is here. It is Josh. Nice to meet you. We are surrounded | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
by some of your photography. Look at this funny fellow, a little toad. | :35:10. | :35:17. | |
That is so cool. My favourite, it is an owl. It is a barn owl, | :35:17. | :35:26. | |
obviously? Now, it is actually an eagle owl. This one was entered into | :35:26. | :35:29. | |
wildlife photographer of the year award and you got a special | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
commendation for it. Can you tell us about it. This photograph was taken | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
in my garden. I got bored with taking pictures of dragonfly is so I | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
put my arm over the pond and this female mosquito came and took some | :35:44. | :35:53. | |
of my blood. What inspired you to start taking photographs? My dad | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
bought me a camera so I could take pictures. I have got to this level | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
since then. Can you give us any top tips if anybody at home wants to | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
take wildlife photographs? Get to know your subject and learn their | :36:07. | :36:14. | |
behaviour. Be patient. It will not always happen first time. It took me | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
five years to get to the sort of photos. I'm sure that everyone at | :36:18. | :36:25. | |
home can take pictures like this. top tip will be checking that your | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
fish tank is completely waterproof before you put your camera in the | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
water! What phenomenal pictures. Josh is only 15 years old. He is | :36:35. | :36:44. | |
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such a talent. If Josh has you feeling creative, go to our website. | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
You can download Josh's top photography tips. There are lots of | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
photographs that we did not have time to show you in the show. If you | :36:54. | :36:56. | |
date -- if you do take a photograph, make sure you e-mail it | :36:56. | :37:02. | |
to us. Include your name and the name of a parent or guardian. What | :37:02. | :37:08. | |
did you think of the pictures? Amazing. I am totally inspired. | :37:08. | :37:16. | |
How about you. Awesome, and believable. I want to include all of | :37:16. | :37:26. | |
:37:26. | :37:26. | ||
you. Are we feeling inspired? From these guys being inspired, to | :37:27. | :37:33. | |
something completely inspirational, check this out. Downhill mountain | :37:33. | :37:40. | |
biking requires nerves of steel, bravery and fitness. Luckily, Phil | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
Hall has all of these and bucketloads. He has found the | :37:43. | :37:48. | |
perfect waif that she has found the perfect way to fit his need for | :37:48. | :37:57. | |
speed. He launches himself down mountain tracks, traversing the | :37:57. | :38:04. | |
Touraine and reaching speeds of up to 30 mph. It is an adrenaline | :38:04. | :38:10. | |
fuelled sport. Since discovering it, Phil has never looked back. Just | :38:10. | :38:17. | |
downhill. He is a dating downhill demon. We can now welcome the man | :38:17. | :38:27. | |
:38:27. | :38:27. | ||
himself to the show. Phil Hall, everyone. How great does this look? | :38:27. | :38:34. | |
Easy, my goodness. Welcome to the show. First of all, how much do you | :38:35. | :38:41. | |
want to have a go at that? How did this become your chosen sport. | :38:41. | :38:46. | |
a motor cycle accident a few years ago and ended up in a wheelchair. I | :38:46. | :38:52. | |
still wanted some adrenaline in a sport. Where did you find it?I | :38:52. | :38:56. | |
discovered gravity biking in the States. I saw poster and find out | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
where to go to try the vividly. I spent a week in the States trying | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
the activity and I loved it. I tried to buy a bike on the way home but | :39:06. | :39:12. | |
they would not sell one to me. So I came back to the UK and I started | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
the Rough Riderz club. There are not lots of these bikes in the UK, | :39:15. | :39:22. | |
either? Now, but hopefully we will expand it to different parts of the | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
UK. Wicked. Can anyone have a go at this? Yes, it is suitable for most | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
disabilities, because it was designed for wheelchair users | :39:31. | :39:37. | |
initially. There are no paddles and it is a crash box for your feet. It | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
is suitable for lots of people with disabilities as long as they have | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
upperbody strength, and able-bodied people can have a go as well. | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
is individual suspension and this makes? Yes, and there are shock | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
absorbers front-end year. There is independent suspension on all four | :39:56. | :40:02. | |
wheels. You have hydraulic brakes like a normal mountain bike. Where | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
can I go and do this? The club offers taster days in the Lake | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
District. We are trying to expand across the UK so that people can try | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
it close to them. I will try and get to one of those taster days. Thank | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
you. Fantastic stuff. Now from flying down the mountains to soaring | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
high above them? This is one animal that has a head | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
for heights, the vulture. They spend their days cruising, hunting for | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
their next meal. From mountains to ban in Savannah is, the scavengers | :40:37. | :40:46. | |
are not fussy about what he. -- about what they have two lead. Using | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
the powerful I said, the search ad death, feeding on nothing but the | :40:50. | :40:58. | |
decaying flesh of animals. Once a meal is found, vultures are highly | :40:58. | :41:08. | |
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social, so, the crowds are never far behind. Yes, and we are welcoming | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
back Graham, who has brought along some vultures to meet us. Down | :41:13. | :41:19. | |
here, it is a lovely rack of ribs, the perfect way to entice them in. I | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
will stand back a little bit, because with excited vultures | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
around, they have big beaks and talents, so I will hide behind | :41:27. | :41:34. | |
Graham. This is a black vulture. He is an American bird. Then we have a | :41:34. | :41:41. | |
hooded vulture. These are more of surface feeding vultures. The big | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
eye, he can get really stuck in. He is using his dominance. You will | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
notice that his wings are right to make himself look bigger. Is there a | :41:51. | :41:57. | |
pecking order among these guys? Yes, the big guys in charge. Your little | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
ones are always watching him. They are feeding and watching him. | :42:02. | :42:08. | |
they always eat the leftovers, the rotten meat lying around? Yes, they | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
are the world's natural garbage disposal. They are so important to | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
the environment. How do they cope with the bacteria that must be in | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
the dead animals? They have amazing assets, they have a crop, which is | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
like a bag at the base of the neck, and they dissolve it all. We even | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
have vultures that will eat the bones. They will eat the entrails. | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
They will even eat deep poo of the animal? Breath freshener is all | :42:39. | :42:45. | |
around after that. You might want to watch camera, it looks a little bit | :42:45. | :42:51. | |
like a dead rabbit. They might for you. Do they use their beaks are | :42:51. | :42:59. | |
their talents as well. They use their beak to hold that time. -- | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
they use their feet to hold it down, but it is the beak that does all of | :43:03. | :43:10. | |
the work. Their heads do not have many feathers on them? They do not | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
want to get that marked up. They are really clean animals. As soon as | :43:14. | :43:20. | |
they have fed, they dive in and wash it all off. Like the eagle, they | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
love the mountains and they saw a really high? Incredibly high. They | :43:25. | :43:31. | |
have been recorded at 37,000 feet. That is about the height you go on | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
your holidays in an aeroplane. is because they have an incredible | :43:36. | :43:42. | |
wingspan? Yes, this bird has a eight feet wingspan. You can see that | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
size. That is about the same as 212-year-old standing on top of each | :43:47. | :43:54. | |
other. It is enormous. They can get some serious height and they are | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
happy in the mountains. Yes, they ride the thermals and are looking on | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
the ground for a like this. Thank you very much for bringing them in. | :44:04. | :44:13. | |
What do you make of the vultures? Arson. To see vultures taking food | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
from a carcass, it is amazing. did you think? Awesome, | :44:19. | :44:25. | |
unbelievable. It is amazing. Really cool. Disgusting. Just really | :44:25. | :44:33. | |
disgusting. We have polarised opinion. Disgusting, cool. Maybe you | :44:33. | :44:40. | |
can combine the two words. I did not realise how much vultures do for the | :44:40. | :44:48. | |
environment. I am going to give them a break. Tim and now may have not | :44:48. | :44:53. | |
got their hands dirty. I beg your pardon. I held the ball of grain | :44:53. | :45:03. | |
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Mountains are spectacular all over the world. Formed lechery through | :45:15. | :45:21. | |
ground breaking displays. Some through a rise in the it earth's | :45:21. | :45:29. | |
crust and others explode to the surface. Molten rock forced out in | :45:29. | :45:39. | |
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an impressive display. The volcano. As it cools down mountains are form. | :45:51. | :45:56. | |
You can probably see behind me the gorgeous Welsh mountains, those are | :45:56. | :46:03. | |
the product of volcanic activity. That has inspired these crazy | :46:03. | :46:09. | |
creations. You have got two minutes to make that model everything you | :46:09. | :46:19. | |
:46:19. | :46:20. | ||
need. Just to explain exactly what this is. It is a plastic bottle. It | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
becomes wrapped with tinfoil. And becomes wrapped with tinfoil. And | :46:25. | :46:32. | |
then modelling play goes on top. We have got some dinosaurs added. We | :46:32. | :46:39. | |
have got broccoli to act as the trees. That gives you a clue what | :46:39. | :46:48. | |
to expect. If you want to make one then go to the website. You can | :46:48. | :46:52. | |
search for a crazy creations which gives you all the instructions that | :46:52. | :47:00. | |
gives you all the instructions that you need. I have an unfair | :47:00. | :47:08. | |
advantage because I have actually been to a volcano. There is no | :47:08. | :47:16. | |
prize. But the loser gets a forfeit. I have got some friends out on the | :47:16. | :47:21. | |
river. They are ready for at the Louisa Reeve to run across those | :47:21. | :47:31. | |
:47:31. | :47:34. | ||
kayaks. -- the loser. The water is for Dick Lily Cole! -- particularly | :47:34. | :47:44. | |
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cold. At some stage you have to put the vinegar in to get the volcanic | :47:45. | :47:55. | |
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explosion. That is the eruption of! Tim, absolutely nothing. You did | :48:01. | :48:11. | |
:48:11. | :48:15. | ||
not put that the baking soda in. Too little, too late. Go and | :48:16. | :48:24. | |
receive your for that. Naomi is the winner. Let us meet our own wild | :48:24. | :48:32. | |
adventurers. They are on their own wild adventure at a very great | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
wild adventure at a very great height. The Lake District is not | :48:37. | :48:45. | |
just famous for its water, it also has stunning vertical landscapes. | :48:45. | :48:53. | |
Making it a great place to go wild. 11 year-old Grace is a keen climber | :48:53. | :48:58. | |
and a regular visitor to her local indoor climbing walls. But today | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
she is heading for the hills to get a taste of climbing in the great | :49:03. | :49:13. | |
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outdoors. And she has brought some friends along. I do not like rats. | :49:15. | :49:25. | |
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I do not like sharks. I do not like fighting with my family. I do not | :49:29. | :49:39. | |
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like sharks. I do not like spiders. The goal is to reach the summit. | :49:42. | :49:52. | |
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Over 600 metres, the highest points in England are among them. So there | :49:53. | :49:58. | |
being kitted out with some safety gear. This will not be an average | :49:58. | :50:03. | |
walk in the hills. The girls have come to this slate mine to try a | :50:03. | :50:10. | |
special climbing course. This is where it begins. You have bought | :50:10. | :50:20. | |
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all your friends along. This is an iron road over at the mountains. | :50:26. | :50:34. | |
Each changeover with just one hand. When you come to the junction, use | :50:34. | :50:42. | |
one hand, take off and swap over the clips. And with the same hand | :50:42. | :50:51. | |
carry on with the next one. Are you going to give it a go? Brilliant. | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
think it will be a really good experience but I'm still nervous. | :50:57. | :51:04. | |
am excited but nervous at the same time. Just seeing how far down it | :51:04. | :51:14. | |
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is. Brilliant. It is so it strange how hi 8 you are and how nervous | :51:22. | :51:30. | |
you are when you get into it. is a system of cables and ladders | :51:30. | :51:36. | |
allowing complete beginners to take on some serious mountaineering. It | :51:36. | :51:44. | |
is as safe way to climb but that does not stop it being scary. | :51:44. | :51:53. | |
made it! So far so good. As the girls continued up the mountain the | :51:53. | :51:59. | |
rain clouds begin to close in. done. You have got past the first | :51:59. | :52:04. | |
section. We have some treats in the next section, you are a little bit | :52:04. | :52:13. | |
more exposed. Are you ready to go? Excellent. Joe is not kidding about | :52:13. | :52:19. | |
it being a scary. The girls have to cross an overhanging rock face in | :52:19. | :52:29. | |
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the driving rain. This is seriously wild. But the next challenge is | :52:32. | :52:41. | |
:52:42. | :52:42. | ||
even more extreme. A wire bridge strung over 100 metres of thin air. | :52:42. | :52:51. | |
I am bouncing up! It would be bad enough in the sunshine but in | :52:51. | :53:00. | |
behind wind this takes real courage. I am going to keep screaming, I | :53:00. | :53:08. | |
know I am. The girls have been climbing for a gruelling three | :53:08. | :53:13. | |
hours but they still have one obstacle laughed. A massive cargo | :53:13. | :53:23. | |
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net. By now the rain is practically horizontal. -- obstacle left. These | :53:24. | :53:32. | |
girls deserve some serious respect. In spite of the appalling weather | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
the Super Star team has made it all the way to the top of the mountain. | :53:36. | :53:43. | |
Even if most of the filming kier has not. The camera has stopped | :53:43. | :53:49. | |
working, the conditions are so bad. There may not be much of a view | :53:50. | :53:59. | |
today but the achievement is ethic. It was really exciting. It is | :53:59. | :54:04. | |
exciting and a thrilling experience. If I could come again at I probably | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
would. It is a really good experience with a lot of | :54:08. | :54:18. | |
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challengers. That was ridiculously high up and in a horrible weather. | :54:23. | :54:30. | |
Massive respect. I wonder if Tim is holding his nerve, running across | :54:30. | :54:40. | |
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those kayaks. You have got to do it because you're volcano was rubbish. | :54:41. | :54:51. | |
:54:51. | :55:10. | ||
In he goes! It is freezing! I am freezing! I am so glad that I was | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
the winner. If you want to have a go at making that volcano the | :55:15. | :55:25. | |
:55:25. | :55:26. | ||
instructions are on the website. Search for crazy creations. And | :55:26. | :55:32. | |
then when you have made your masterpiece send us in a photograph. | :55:32. | :55:39. | |
We will try to show some on the show next week. We have received | :55:39. | :55:49. | |
:55:49. | :55:51. | ||
some of your comments. Telling us about Europe wild adventures. | :55:51. | :55:58. | |
Another says, I like climbing in the Lake District. It is beautiful. | :55:58. | :56:05. | |
And we have one photograph that has been sent in. In the mountains. | :56:05. | :56:11. | |
Well done. And if you have had an adventure then we want to see it. | :56:11. | :56:18. | |
Next week we're going to be in the Forest. Here he comes. A round of | :56:18. | :56:26. | |
applause for Jim. Next week we're in the forest and if you have had a | :56:26. | :56:36. | |
:56:36. | :56:37. | ||
Forest adventure please send us in a photograph. We're coming to the | :56:37. | :56:44. | |
end of the show. But we are coming back! Thank you to everyone who | :56:44. | :56:54. | |
:56:54. | :56:56. | ||
helped us out in Snowdonia. We have had a great time. Thank you to | :56:56. | :57:04. | |
mountain bike legend Chris Doney. And Rough Rider fill halls. And of | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
course to our photographer, Josh. And our feathered and fluffy | :57:10. | :57:17. | |
friends. And of course to the audience. Do you keep your | :57:17. | :57:22. | |
photographs coming in. That is all for today. We believe you are taste | :57:22. | :57:29. | |
of what is coming up next Saturday at 9 o'clock. Please remember, get | :57:29. | :57:34. | |
out and fell Wilde! Joined as next week for more it seriously wild | :57:34. | :57:43. |