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0:22:06 > 0:22:10One of the Scots words I love to use is "clarty" and that means
0:22:10 > 0:22:13when you're covered in mud, and as a zoologist, I'm out in the field
0:22:13 > 0:22:16a lot hunting for animals and bugs and you get covered in mud.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19When that happens, your hands get clarty, you sometimes have
0:22:19 > 0:22:24to give them a "dicht" which means a wipe on your trousers or your jacket.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26It's such an expressive word.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32Look at that, there's loads of them here. Look at that. Fantastic.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35I'm going to have a wee keek at these bugs.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38You can tell it's a beetle larva
0:22:38 > 0:22:40because it's got three pairs of legs at the front.
0:22:40 > 0:22:45George McGavin is a man with a passion for creepy-crawlies
0:22:45 > 0:22:48and it leads him to some pretty unusual places.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54Very often when you're hunting for animals,
0:22:54 > 0:22:58especially if they're insects, you have to get into a tight space.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01And that usually means getting dirty, or clarty,
0:23:01 > 0:23:05so I usually come home covered in mud!
0:23:05 > 0:23:08But that's the only place you can find really interesting things.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11I think there's something lurking behind here.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15I'm going to give that a prise off. Oh, look at that, that's interesting.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Now, something's been eating up here hidden away here
0:23:21 > 0:23:25and all this is falling down. So those little...
0:23:25 > 0:23:26Oh!
0:23:26 > 0:23:28HE SPITS DIRT FROM HIS MOUTH
0:23:28 > 0:23:29Yes, very clarty.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40I'm often asked why I find animals and plants interesting.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Obviously there's history and music and art and stuff
0:23:43 > 0:23:45but if you take that away,
0:23:45 > 0:23:47if you take everything away, what have you got left?
0:23:47 > 0:23:50And the answer is animals and plants, the natural world.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52So I find it much more interesting.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56And in the right place at the right time, they can be extraordinary.
0:23:56 > 0:24:01This is just...breathtaking.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05These are just some of the amazing insects of Borneo.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08It's a huge cicada.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10RASPING NOISE
0:24:10 > 0:24:12The whole of the abdomen is hollow.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14RASPING CONTINUES Hear that?
0:24:14 > 0:24:19That probably one of the ones that wakes us up in the morning.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Look at that, that's a beauty. That's an absolute beauty.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Back in Britain in early spring,
0:24:25 > 0:24:29insects are a little harder to come across,
0:24:29 > 0:24:32and thankfully a lot smaller.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36An average eight-year-old child could find out something new
0:24:36 > 0:24:40about the world of insects in their back garden if they just looked.
0:24:42 > 0:24:48If I had a billion pounds I would buy every kid a hand lens like this
0:24:48 > 0:24:52because you can see things happening on the ground, in soil,
0:24:52 > 0:24:55in bits of dead wood, that you just wouldn't believe were happening.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00'There are so many words that are just brilliant when you're outside.
0:25:00 > 0:25:04'Like, you know, if you're a stream, in mud,
0:25:04 > 0:25:08'you're hae'in a guddle, or if you're just out for a walk, you'd say
0:25:08 > 0:25:11'"I'm just away for a birl around this wood."
0:25:11 > 0:25:14'Just a walk, basically. A look, a keek.
0:25:14 > 0:25:21'And just all these words that I recall from being a small boy.'
0:25:21 > 0:25:26The first spring day like today when a few folks are in their shorts
0:25:26 > 0:25:30and you say to yourself, "Look at his legs, they're awfully peely-wally".
0:25:30 > 0:25:32You know, "They're very pale."
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