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Hello. Today I am on a journey through the low-lying lands of | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Cambridgeshire, a county of watery landscapes and historic places, but | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
also somewhere that is very near to my heart. I begin in Cambridge, | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
where I will take part in a rather unusual race. I think if this was | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
golf you might say I am in the rough right now. Then I will | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
continue along the river to learn about the impact that the Cambridge | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
University Botanic Garden had on the creation of Charles Darwin's | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
ultimate theory. I will travel to Cherry Hinton chalk pit to hunt | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
down the rare sight of a glow worm at night. There is one. Isn't that | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
incredible? Matt Baker Experiences the wonders of paddle boarding on | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Wicken Fen. It is like a fish tank. It is like you're floating on the | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
top of a giant aquarium. And the secrets of Ely Cathedral bill | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
revealed -- will be revealed. My journey ends at Old Hurst where I | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
will meet a Pharma whose diverse -- the there's a vacation plans have a | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
bit more bite than moss. He came at me face on. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
I will also be looking back at the best of the BBC's rural programmes | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
from this part of the world. Welcome to Country Tracks. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Cambridgeshire is a famously flat part of the country, with the Fens | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
being the lowest point of the whole of the UK at nine feet below sea | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
level. With the gently flowing what always unbeatable countryside, it | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
is easy to see why this has become a county that practically demands | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
relaxation. And what better way to relax them punting near Cambridge | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
on the beautiful River Cam? -- relaxed than punting. It is an | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
image associated with Cambridge - lazy summer days, champagne picnics, | :02:29. | :02:38. | |
men in straw boaters, and given that I was a student here, one that | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
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is close to my heart. Boy Mark -- Guy Dozer, a plan chauffeur for | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
nine years, is here to show me the ropes. I am trying to make it go | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
straight but I see a lot of people zig-zagging. When it is windy you | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
need to be able to control the board. You can use the pole as a | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
paddle, ruddering. The other ways to put the pole in at an angle. If | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
I put the pole in like this, keep the pole parallel with the punt. It | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
should go in a straight line. all about the slide through the | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
hand, as easy as you like. You see a few show-offs on the river. What | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
is their technique? One-handed punting. It slows you down but it | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
is quite cool. You throw your pole up, catch it and stick it back in. | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
The only advantage to it is that, if you have a beer or something, | :03:50. | :03:59. | |
you can hold on to it whilst punting. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
So talk me through the punts themselves, it is quite an unusual | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
boat. It is unusual. It would originally have been used for | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
fishing on Mures land where water would have been too shallow. They | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
were also used for reed cutting. It does not have a keel so it only | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
goes one or two inches into the water, which means that you can | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
punt over shallow what that you could not Rover. If it is | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
originally a fishing boat, apostle of -- possibly for rate cut in, how | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
did it make its way to Oxford? Did they just make it? I do not want to | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
talk about Oxford! You tend to find that the two often copy each other. | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
When something becomes popular in Cambridge it will become, gripped - | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
- popular in Oxford. I think they like to be a little bit different. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Run or counter-intuitively for this leisurely activity is also the | :05:03. | :05:13. | |
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strange tradition of racing pundits. I think it is time to give it ago. | :05:16. | :05:25. | |
To the next bridge? In yes. Let's try and stay dry. Now it is taking | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
into business. I am wildly off course. I am not really in control. | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
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Come on! Stuck! I think if this was golf you might say I am in the | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
rough right now. I think I would be quicker swimming, to be honest. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
And where my punting journey ends, John Craven's began in February | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
2009 when he took to the water to explore the colleges of Cambridge | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
University. Cambridge started when a group of | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
scholars fled here from Oxford after protesting about a hanging. | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
And, as the university grew, so did its influence on both Thailand and | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
countryside, with many colleges pawning large stretches of farm | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
land. And what better way to get a feel for the place than taking a | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
punt right down Cambridge's river, the River Cam. Alan Dickinson is my | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
guide. This bridge belongs to St John's College, it is the Bridge of | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Sighs. It is a replica of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice. The | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
students live on the right-hand side of the river and do their | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
exams on the left, so as they walk across the side, wishing they had | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
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worked harder. -- they sigh. Before Trinity College came along, 35 | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
years after St John's College started, St Johns was the biggest, | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
best and wealthiest, and for that reason these two colleges have a | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
huge rivalry. Who is the Richard? Who is the wealthiest, the biggest, | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
the best? We all know that Trinity College is. St John's have never | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
been too happy with that. They built this college purely as a show | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
of wealth. Trinity College are incredibly wealthy. They have | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
assets worth well over �2.6 billion. A lot of that is in a land. What | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
about famous students? Sir Isaac Newton. He studied mathematics here. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Prince Charles came here, studied architecture. He was remembered for | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
saying how he did not want to be treated any differently from any | :07:54. | :08:03. | |
other student. This is Clare College, funded by Lady Elizabeth | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
de Clare. It is the second oldest college in Cambridge, dates back to | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
1326. Lady Elizabeth de Clare was an interesting when ritual -- an | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
interesting woman. She was very wealthy and her wealth came from | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
the fact that she had been married and widowed three times by that age | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
was 27. Presumably to rich men. Each one was wealthy and each one | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
died mysteriously, so she acquired the nickname of the Black Widow. | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
The next college you can see, a very famous college, King's College. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
It was founded in 1441 by King Henry VI because he wanted | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
somewhere for his boys from Eton school to go on to to further their | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
studies. It must be rather nice, if you're looking for a place for your | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
children to go to school, to be able to build somewhere like that. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
And which bridge is this one? This is famously non and as the | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
mathematically bridge. Queen's College, at their wooden bridge. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
The most famous story is that it was designed and built by Sir Isaac | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
Newton himself. Originally the bridge had no nuts or bolts. It was | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
a completely free-standing structure. The legend goes that, a | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
few years later, the Master of the college was a way for the weekend. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
And the students were fascinated as to how the bridge when together. | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
They did what men do, when they do not understand something they take | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
it apart. They then could not put it back together again. That is why | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
it has nuts and bolts in it. Was it actually designed by Isaac Newton? | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
It was not. You're Cambridge born- and-bred, Allen. What is it like | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
living in a city that is so dominated by the University? It is | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
interesting, there is a distinct divide between what we call the | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
town and the gown. If you went back a few years it is very much | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
dominated by the universities. It has levelled itself but. And the | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
town and the gown live well together, in my opinion. | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
My trip ends at Darwin College, named after the student who change | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
the way we think about the natural world. It is 150 years this year | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
since the publication of this book. This is a first edition. It is | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Charles Darwin's On The Origin Of Species, the book which introduced | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
the world to the concept of evolution through natural selection. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Darwin wrote his controversial book 30 years after his time as an | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
undergraduate at Christ's College, but his interest in natural science | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
started here. Now the college has commissioned a statue of him, to be | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
unveiled later this week. So this is Charles Darwin at the age of... | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
About 22, his last year at Christ's before leaving a few months later, | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
joining the Beagle and sailing round the world. | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
We're not used to seeing anything of him at this age, are we? No, it | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
is always the elderly man with the big white beard. I thought it would | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
be nice to show him as a younger students. How do you know that he | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
would have looked like that at 22? There is reference material for him, | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
it is fairly few and far between. There is a famous watercolour | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
portrait of him in his 30s. That was quite an important reference | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
point. This is the clay model that you worked on for top exactly. | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
is at the foundry being cast in bronze. It will be unveiled on the | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
bicentenary. You're a student here, is this your first big commission? | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
Yes. It is nice for me because the reason why I apply to come here in | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
particular was after reading On The Origin Of Species when I was 16. | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
That triggered my whole passion for natural sciences. I ended up at his | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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old college. Darwin came to Christ's College | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
Cambridge and, although he was supposed to be studying theology, | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
he spent a lot of time that my next stop - the botanic garden. Darwin | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
had a fascination with plants and the study of botany. Through this | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
interest, he developed a friendship with botany professor John Stevens | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
Henslow. He introduced jar -- Darwin to the concept of variation | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
within species and how species could vary depending on their | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
environment. I am here to meet Dr Tim Upson, curator of the Botanic | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Garden, to find out about the influence that John Stevens Henslow | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
had on Darwin. At the time, public was very much of the opinion that | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
God put species and creatures on earth. Why he's variation so | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
important to John Stevens Henslow and Charles Darwin? What is it that | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
they are seeing in the significance of trees that are quite similar but | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
basically different? John Stevens Henslow gave Darwin some of his | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
ideas, which ultimately translated into On The Origin Of Species. One | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
of the key concepts is the importance of variation. Variation, | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
evolution, survival of the fittest and things change in that way, not | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
just created by God. So it is John Stevens Henslow who planted that | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
seed in Darwin's mind? That is a good way of putting it. Just to | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
give a visual representation of what we're talking about. We have | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
different examples of the black pine. We see one from the Alps, | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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with downward sloping brunches, possibly to shed the snow. Then | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
there is another example of the same species that is different in | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
its habits. The Alpine one has low sloping branches to get rid of the | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
snow and the Mediterranean one has branches turned towards the sun to | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
catch the light? Yes. You accept variation as something | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
that is naturally occurring. You expect to see it and understand it. | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
Back then, they would not have had the same view and the idea of the | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
world as we have today. We do have those ideas and they are | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
represented here. The Botanic Gardens had been kept going and, | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
thanks to John Stevens Henslow laying it out and keep in it going? | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
Yes, this is one of the magnificent legacies, of the ideas that were | :15:01. | :15:10. | |
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embodied here and these magnificent, It was John Stevens Henslow who | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
recommended Charles Darwin joined the crew of the Beagle on his | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
voyage around the world. This was to lay the foundation for his | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
famous The Origin Of The Species. Charles Darwin may have sailed | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
around the world, but on mac Baker's trip to this region, he | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
took to the water on a different type of craft. | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
These were once bustling, transporting goods from defendants | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
to Cambridge Andy Lee. But now, they are peaceful backwaters. A | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
small oasis for budding sports men. I have got my shorts on, and I am | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
holding a paddle, because I am going for a different view, not | :16:01. | :16:10. | |
from a boat, but from a board. The surface not up. But this is what | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
the best places -- one of the best ways to see this place. This man | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
runs tours with a difference. Working alongside staff here, he | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
helps visitors to enjoy the reserve in a very own traditional way. How | :16:26. | :16:36. | |
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are you doing? Very well. The man of the reeds! Es! This is an | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
unusual way of getting around. when people see it for the first | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
time, they are surprised, but it is a fantastic way to see the fence. | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
have got my board, so I will put my buoyancy aid on. You need to stand | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
with your legs slightly bent, which will keep your feet flat on the | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
board. You need to keep looking ahead, and both feet pointing | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
forward. Is it quite stable? chances of falling in of very low. | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
It is flat water, hardly any wind, so you will get on great. Crack | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
your paddle. Is it quite deep? is about a foot deep. If you put | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
your right foot onto the board near the handle... Spread your feet out | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
a bit now. That is pretty good. Keep your knees bent. That is your | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
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first lesson! Keep your knees bent, a look ahead, you will be fine. | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
is quite responsive. Very much so. Keep paddling, keep your knees bent. | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
If you keep looking ahead, you should be able to see down through | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
the water, so you will be able to see the fish. We are going! It is | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
like a fish tank. Yes, that is what most people say when I take them | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
for a paddle. It feels like you are floating along the top of a giant | :18:18. | :18:28. | |
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aquarium. If you want to improve on your technique, because we are | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
going to cover a fair distance, keep your bottom arm straight and | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
push away with your top hand. That starts to use the muscles in your | :18:38. | :18:47. | |
shoulder and your back. Where does it originate from? It feels quite | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
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tribal. Man of the jungle! It comes from her way. When they were | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
teaching at surfing lessons, they found it easier to stand up, | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
because he could see where the waves were coming from. You must | :19:06. | :19:15. | |
come across lots of wildlife. You creep up. You also silent. Yes, we | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
paddle from spring through to autumn, said you see the migrating | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
Nature that comes through. What big fish have you got? We have got pike | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
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and perch. You will see a lot of DU fancy a go?! It is almost like | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
meditation. Yes, because you are having to think about what you are | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
doing, you cannot think of anything else. It completely relaxes the | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
mind. Have you noticed the dragonflies? They are darting | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
around all over the show. It is around here that you will often | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
find a pike. You will come across some greener plants, small tufts. | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
They are quite low down. The pipe will be floating above them there. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
The stripes are not as random as the other plants that are in there, | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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We are just coming up to one of the bird-watching towers. As we come | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
alongside, you will notice there are holes in the side. The | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
woodpeckers have seen it as a giant tree. The vandals have been picking | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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their way through! Talking of wildlife, look what we have got! | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
How are you doing? You are looking very good! I knew he would get it | :21:10. | :21:18. | |
sorted! Howl is it going? I am really enjoying it. I have had a go | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
for three minutes, it is like being on a door on the water! Shall I go | :21:24. | :21:34. | |
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overboard?! Feet wide apart? And bend the knees? There we go. | :21:34. | :21:44. | |
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lot doing it! Avoid the lilies! Look at you! It is coming back to | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
me! Where I'll be going to go? Let's head up there. Have you seen | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
any eels? No, but it is like gliding on the top of an aquarium. | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
I could be wearing a long skirt to do this in! | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
What a relaxing and peaceful way to enjoy the area. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
I have left the water behind and travelled to Cherry Hinton Nature | :22:14. | :22:23. | |
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Reserve, where I have come to look for an unusual creature. Cherry | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Hinton is a strange place. It almost feels like another planet, | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
especially at dusk, which is when I have chosen to ride. Until the | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
1980s, this was a working quarry that provided hard chalk and live | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
for the University College in Cambridge. After the quarry's fell | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
into disuse, the Emir was left wild and unloved. -- every year. But | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
then the local wildlife trust bought it and began work to reclaim | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
the land for wildlife. I am here to look for in mysterious creature | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
that is almost impossible to find in the daytime. I have got to wait | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
for might fall for the search to begin. -- wait for nightfall. The | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
glow worm is the stuff of fairy- tales, and seeing one is a rare | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
opportunity that Moro Watson -- Laura Watson is here to help me to | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
fill. Why are we looking for glow- worms? It seems barren and Luna, | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
the landscape. Yes, but the glow worms really like the rough | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
grassland around the edges. They eat snails. There is an awful lot | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
of snails. The open areas are really good for the glow worms when | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
they are blowing, because they want to be as obvious as possible. That | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
is so they can attract a mate. night falls, our search begins for | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
the aversive -- elusive glowworm. We are scanning all corners in the | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
hope of spotting a magical glow. We are not actually looking for a | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
worm? Not at all. They are Beatles. How big? What sort of shape? They | :24:21. | :24:30. | |
are an inch long. The females look like a grub. The adult males look | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
like a black beetle. But they are hard to spot, because the males do | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
not gloat. They can be spotted in many different areas the crops -- | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
across Great Britain, but they only glow in June and July. Where are we | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
looking? They like rough, grassy areas, generally. But in this | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
reserve, we have seen them out in the open. They could be anywhere! | :25:04. | :25:12. | |
When you look for them, do you know little hot spots? Yes. That will | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
help! They do not have to be near something they will eat? Not at all. | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
The adults do not eat. The glow- worms only eat as larvae, said they | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
have two years eating as many slugs and snails as possible, so they | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
grow big and strong, and turn into adults for a couple of weeks, the | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
:25:44. | :25:47. | ||
time it takes to make -- to mate. They have big pincers. They nicked | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
the slugs and snails and inject an Ensign in, and they turn into a | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
soup, and the larvae can eat them up. Where do you think we might get | :25:59. | :26:07. | |
lucky? Our best bet is to head over here, towards the shorter grass. | :26:07. | :26:17. | |
:26:17. | :26:17. | ||
That is where they were saying last night. That is a good tip! As our | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
search of the Grand intensifies, I am beginning to think we will never | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
:26:31. | :26:37. | ||
spot one. Until... There is one! Fishes. There is his! -- there it | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
is! That is incredible. She has raised herself up, to be as visible | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
as possible. Yes, she will spend the day on ground level, but when | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
she glows, she wants to be as obvious as possible to potential | :26:52. | :27:01. | |
mates. What is it that makes her a blow like that? It is a chemical | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
reaction. It is a molecule which reacts with oxygen. The light is | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
the energy from that reaction. has not eaten in her current form, | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
so this is stored up energy which burns so brightly. As well as | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
attracting a mate, the glowing at the men is a warning to predators | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
to stay away. Glow-worms taste bad, and they contain chemicals that | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
cause vomiting. It is difficult to explain to people who are not here | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
how bright it is, because we have got a camera light, but is it | :27:37. | :27:45. | |
possible to hold her? She will be fine. I will gently just coax her | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
on to my hand. I would describe that like a lady, it is that kind | :27:51. | :27:58. | |
of light. Have we got a spare camera battery? This is | :27:58. | :28:08. | |
:28:08. | :28:09. | ||
unscientific! But we have this light. We can see how it looks for | :28:09. | :28:19. | |
:28:19. | :28:19. | ||
comparison. She has done very well, she has kept going for us! We will | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
gently let her go back onto a bit of grass. If we were to stay here | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
for the next couple of weeks, we would see a male can in? They fly | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
really low over the ground, searching for the females' glow | :28:33. | :28:41. | |
wind. When she has her wicked way, where will she go? She will lay her | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
eggs on the ground level and die. Shrivel up next to them, her | :28:47. | :28:57. | |
:28:57. | :28:59. | ||
mission is over! Quite a glorious two weeks. Yes, it is worth it. | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
little further north, the home to one of the most spectacular | :29:04. | :29:13. | |
cathedrals in England. Ely Cathedral is indeed a magnificent | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
building. It is often known as the ship of the Fens, due to its | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
prominence in a flat and watery landscape. It is huge. The main | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
body of the building is 75 metres long. It is the longest nave in | :29:27. | :29:34. | |
Britain. But it is not the size of this beautiful building that is of | :29:34. | :29:40. | |
interest. Michael White shares with us the secrets of Ely Cathedral. | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
The parts of it that you would overlook, and that most people do | :29:44. | :29:53. | |
not even know are there. This is the Prior's door, an elegant door, | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
built around 1135, we think. It is at the sacred boundary off the | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
monastery. And the rough and tumble of the world outside. We think it | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
is Jesus warning us to be careful of the rough-and-tumble. It seems | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
to concentrate on the lighter side of life. Is that a kiss? Is that | :30:16. | :30:22. | |
somebody drinking? That is a man playing a harp. At the base, we can | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
see two little men In A Boat, throwing in opposite directions, | :30:26. | :30:36. | |
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perhaps an example of modern This is one of my favourite spaces | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
in Ely Cathedral. The atmosphere is absolutely tremendous. It is the | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
Lady Chapel. It was built for the worship of the Virgin Mary and it | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
is probably one of the very largest of the Lady Chapels in Britain. It | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
is 100 feet long, 46 ft wide. The idea was that pilgrims would come | :31:00. | :31:06. | |
here for a final service. They would be surrounded, as if in the | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
ante Room To Heaven, with 147 statues. It was damaged because, | :31:11. | :31:18. | |
once the Reformation had a cart, Protestant religion had begun, Sts' | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
statues, pictures of the Saints in the windows were thought to be | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
idolatrous and inappropriate. So they were smashed. All of these | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
statues of the saints that you can see have had their heads removed. | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
One of the curious features about the Lady Chapel is that it has some | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
elements of previous religions, previous beliefs. One element, just | :31:41. | :31:47. | |
up here, is a figure of a green man. You can see the tendril of by be | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
coming out of is. He seems to represent the force of the forest, | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
some kind of ancient belief in the vigour of life. But it does seem | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
rather strange that all of the statues around us lost their heads | :32:00. | :32:06. | |
but Our Green man is still quite untouched. This is a wonderful, | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
like space now, but in the Middle Ages, with stained glass all round, | :32:10. | :32:18. | |
it was probably quite subdued. The piece of stained glass behind me is | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
really made up of remnants that had gathered in one place to give an | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
impression of what the whole chapel might have looked like if all of | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
the glass had remained. It is remarkable stained-glass in that it | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
contains pictures of ordinary folk - peasants with their Pudsey and | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
their pointy shoes, and armed men in Armagh that has been dated to | :32:37. | :32:47. | |
:32:47. | :32:49. | ||
almost exactly 1325. -- armour. I am sitting in one of the alcoves | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
of the Lady Chapel and a of May there is a little stoned joke. | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
There is a smiley man. If you manage to look up and at the back | :32:58. | :33:08. | |
of him, he is a miserable man. One of the virtues of this huge | :33:08. | :33:15. | |
enclosed space is the acoustics that they created us up if I clap | :33:15. | :33:25. | |
:33:25. | :33:28. | ||
you can hear that the Ecole lasts for something like seven seconds. - | :33:28. | :33:38. | |
:33:38. | :33:38. | ||
- the echo. The effect of singing in the Lady Chapel is enhanced in a | :33:38. | :33:41. | |
magical way. Just down the road from the secrets | :33:41. | :33:45. | |
of Ely Cathedral, Jennie Docherty found out all about the stress ball | :33:45. | :33:50. | |
world of celery farming on Wicken Fen. | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
Wicken Fen is one of the only remnants of the original wetland | :33:53. | :34:03. | |
:34:03. | :34:03. | ||
wilderness. This is what the Fens would have looked like and this is | :34:03. | :34:11. | |
0.1% of what were originally was here. It is a shame because we have | :34:11. | :34:21. | |
:34:21. | :34:21. | ||
lost a wilderness. It is this watery environment that has created | :34:21. | :34:31. | |
:34:31. | :34:54. | ||
Today much of the rich farmland is giving up to big horticulture. This | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
company grows 75% of all the celery that we eat. I am signing on for | :34:59. | :35:06. | |
the day as a picker. In this kind of farming your workforce is key. | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
And like so much of modern British agriculture, the company relies on | :35:10. | :35:17. | |
migrant workers. How are you getting on, guys? 2,000 agriculture | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
students from all over Europe arrive every year to plant and | :35:20. | :35:27. | |
harvest their crops. We will get the bikes and get going, OK? What | :35:27. | :35:34. | |
do you mean bikes? We are very environmentally friendly. Here is | :35:34. | :35:44. | |
:35:44. | :35:46. | ||
my boss. -- Kier. Is it always a race in the morning to see who gets | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
there first? There is a competitive nature amongst some of the male | :35:51. | :36:01. | |
:36:01. | :36:25. | ||
The company's masterstroke has been to invent a machine that takes full | :36:25. | :36:29. | |
advantage of the manpower. They have designed unique rigs that turn | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
handbagging into an outdoor production line. Inside these | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
mobile factories they can trim, or wash and pack the celebrate in the | :36:38. | :36:47. | |
:36:48. | :36:51. | ||
field. -- celery. If I am slow and do not get paid as much, I might | :36:51. | :36:59. | |
also hold back these guys. Cutting Celery - just how tough can it be? | :36:59. | :37:09. | |
:37:09. | :37:15. | ||
As you pull it, it was the blade round -- twist the blade. You use | :37:15. | :37:23. | |
these for a secondary process. They go on the bottom conveyor, the butt | :37:23. | :37:29. | |
should look like that. It is really fast. Don't forget, you get 3p for | :37:29. | :37:39. | |
:37:39. | :37:40. | ||
every one of these. So, like that? No! You have just cost us money. | :37:40. | :37:50. | |
:37:50. | :37:51. | ||
You have ruined the whole thing. That all has to go on there, then? | :37:51. | :38:01. | |
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Today's schedule is to cut 40,000 sticks of celery. With all the rigs | :38:01. | :38:11. | |
:38:11. | :38:11. | ||
working at full capacity, that is 1.6 million sticks a week. There is | :38:11. | :38:21. | |
a lot of pressure in this job. That's right. I don't think about | :38:21. | :38:27. | |
This machine weighs about 30 tonnes and that is continually moving | :38:27. | :38:37. | |
:38:37. | :38:38. | ||
forward at walking speed. -- and it is. If you are slow it pushes you | :38:38. | :38:45. | |
forward. And you have to do this for how many hours? 10. 10 ours. | :38:45. | :38:52. | |
You have to be tough. -- 10 hours. There is not much conversation | :38:52. | :38:57. | |
because we are all plug into making money. They cannot afford to have | :38:57. | :39:02. | |
fag breaks or anything like that. I would not mind a couple of them on | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
the farm! The truth behind it is that if you do not have these guys | :39:06. | :39:11. | |
working here it forms all run the country how are we going to get the | :39:11. | :39:18. | |
food to the supermarket at the right price? Without these workers | :39:18. | :39:23. | |
we would have to import food. We could not do it otherwise. Jimmy, | :39:23. | :39:28. | |
come here. Just as I am getting the hang of it, my supervisor moves me | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
on to driving the rig. This means that everyone will have to work at | :39:32. | :39:42. | |
:39:42. | :39:48. | ||
my speed. Keep cutting. I have to cut as well? Yes. You set the pace. | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
Making 3p on every stick they cat, the fastest teams can double their | :39:53. | :40:03. | |
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wage. Look how long my line is. This is really stressful because | :40:04. | :40:10. | |
they are all waiting on my speed, and I am behind anyway. I am coming, | :40:10. | :40:18. | |
I am coming! We want to cut! It is not long before all hell | :40:18. | :40:28. | |
:40:28. | :40:35. | ||
breaks loose. TAPPING I am under pressure. | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
Not only am I losing money, I am losing the crop as well. Before I | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
can do any more damage, Chela pulls me out to show me the rest of the | :40:44. | :40:54. | |
:40:54. | :40:55. | ||
operation. -- Kier. The celery moves to the upstairs to | :40:55. | :41:05. | |
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Ayr of the rig. -- tier. The celery is lost in ice-cold water, bringing | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
its temperature down, conserving its freshness. That is the finished | :41:21. | :41:28. | |
product? That is it. They are ready to go to the supermarket. It goes | :41:28. | :41:36. | |
in this tray and it is done. Off it goes, fresh as a daisy. That's it, | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
finished. The celery can be on the | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
supermarket shelf within hours. There are lots of tough farming | :41:44. | :41:50. | |
jobs being done by migrant workers. And although the number of Eastern | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
European as is now starting to go down, the face of our farm labour | :41:54. | :42:04. | |
:42:04. | :42:08. | ||
force is changing. I would like to buy a laptop. He is planning to | :42:08. | :42:17. | |
earn something like �3,000. long will that take him? Three | :42:17. | :42:24. | |
months. How long would it take at home? About eight months. So it is | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
well paid here? Compared to warm, yes. And he will put his money into | :42:30. | :42:40. | |
:42:40. | :42:40. | ||
agriculture when he goes back on? For sure. -- back home? Many of the | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
students come here to work and then go home to set up their own | :42:44. | :42:50. | |
businesses. There are over 1,500 people engaged in agriculture here. | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
It is great seeing this youth and this vibrant. There is no doubt | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
that the abuse of modern workers does go on. Here, without it, this | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
business just would not survive. What these guys are doing is | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
amazing. OK, there is big machinery but they have used technology to | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
come and harvest everything and packet in the field. It is as fresh | :43:13. | :43:16. | |
as a daisy. You get something like that that has been picked out of | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
the ground and then, in six minutes, it is in a packet and on the shelf | :43:20. | :43:30. | |
:43:30. | :43:33. | ||
and the same day. That his genius. At the end of a long, hard day's | :43:33. | :43:41. | |
picking, I earned �60. Aren't you the guy who is saving up for the | :43:41. | :43:50. | |
laptop? OK, guys, here is some beer. Cheers! | :43:50. | :43:55. | |
Amazing, the speed at which those guys can work. I am on my way to a | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
completely different type of farm, or one with much more snap than a | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
stick of celery. We have all heard of farm diversification where | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
farmers supplement their traditional livelihood with new | :44:07. | :44:10. | |
money-making ventures. One local farmer has taken this to a whole | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
new level. In a moment I am going to get up close and personal with | :44:15. | :44:21. | |
one of the most dangerous predators on the planet. First, the weather | :44:21. | :44:31. | |
:44:31. | :44:35. | ||
Hello. We are still heading for one of the warmest Novembers on record. | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
The weather pattern has changed in the last week - more mobility and | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
more unsettled weather. That is the way it is going to stay over the | :44:42. | :44:48. | |
week ahead. We will find showers or longer spells of rain coupled with | :44:48. | :44:53. | |
spells of strong or even gale-force winds. The weather that we have had | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
in the last 24-hours is pulling away and heading to Scandinavia. It | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
is an improving story for the rest of the day as the winds become | :45:01. | :45:08. | |
lighter and we get more sunshine. There are still some showers in | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
Northern Ireland. It will feel colder than yesterday, called a in | :45:11. | :45:20. | |
Scotland, too. -- colder. More sunshine for the eastern side of | :45:20. | :45:25. | |
Scotland. Showers in the West. There may be some rain dripping | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
into the Midlands. Much more sunshine east of the Pennines and a | :45:29. | :45:39. | |
:45:39. | :45:40. | ||
sunny afternoon in East Anglia and the south-east. The wind will be | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
lightest in the south-west. It will be generally dry and sunny across | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
most of Wales. The wind continued to ease. Where we have clear skies, | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
temperatures will fall quickly overnight. The wind will fresh and | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
again and blow more cloud into Northern Ireland and Scotland, | :45:56. | :46:01. | |
lifting temperatures. There will be a widespread ground frost across | :46:01. | :46:06. | |
England and Wales. Many rural areas will be below freezing. Maybe some | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
mist and fog in the south-east of England first thing. Tomorrow the | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
story is one of freshening south to south-westerly winds, blowing in | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
more cloud and patchy rain. Their heaviest will be in western | :46:17. | :46:27. | |
:46:27. | :46:30. | ||
Scotland later. It gets even windier on Monday night and into | :46:30. | :46:33. | |
Tuesday. And it gets wetter as these weather front become aligned | :46:33. | :46:39. | |
in the north-west. Another 70 mm of rain in Scotland on Tuesday. | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
Because of that we have an early warning that there could be some | :46:42. | :46:52. | |
:46:52. | :46:57. | ||
local flooding. Some strong winds will blow when milder rare. -- will | :46:57. | :47:07. | |
There will be some sunshine allow up -- around on Wednesday, | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
particularly in the east. Showers are more likely in the West. Some | :47:10. | :47:16. | |
of those could be wintery in Scotland, and not just on the hills. | :47:16. | :47:19. | |
We move into a time of uncertainty towards the end of the week as we | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
head to Thursday. Low pressure is on the scene, lot of pressure | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
fronts. A lot of doubt about the detail. Essentially it looks like | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
Thursday could be pretty wet. A lot of heavy rain around. As that | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
clears from the north-west of Scotland, we may briefly see a | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
spell of snow. Colombe pressure -- the low pressure responsible for | :47:41. | :47:47. | |
that pulls away and we have just a brief respite on Friday. There is | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
another low pressure coming in from the Atlantic. December could turn a | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
bit chillier than we have been used to. More rain to come in the week | :47:55. | :48:05. | |
:48:05. | :48:08. | ||
ahead and it will still be Today, I have been travelling | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
through Cambridgeshire. In Cambridge, I enjoyed a relaxing | :48:11. | :48:15. | |
punt along the River Cam and learned about Charles Darwin's time | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
at university. A captured the sight of a group -- glow worm at Cherry | :48:21. | :48:26. | |
Hinton, and the secrets of Ely Cathedral were revealed, but now I | :48:26. | :48:32. | |
am at Old Hurst, about to meet some extraordinary farm animals. | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
This farm has been in the family since 1898, but it was the BSE | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
crisis that forced Andy Johnson to diversify. He has been looking for | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
a suitable alternative to cattle, and he thinks he may have found it. | :48:47. | :48:57. | |
:48:57. | :49:01. | ||
It is not pigs. It is for more unusual. -- far more. It is dinner- | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
time at Old Hurst, and Andy has the unenviable task of feeding his four | :49:06. | :49:16. | |
:49:16. | :49:17. | ||
Nile crocodiles. I am not quite sure what to make of this! Argue a | :49:17. | :49:25. | |
few sandwiches short of a picnic?! I have brought them in for waste | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
disposal and for production of high-quality meat. Along with that, | :49:30. | :49:33. | |
crocodiles are one of the few animals with no by-product. The | :49:34. | :49:42. | |
skin is useful, there is demand for the scales, and you will always | :49:42. | :49:49. | |
have a demand for crocodile teeth. Everything is saleable. Is it | :49:49. | :49:54. | |
dangerous? It must be dangerous. Working with all livestock is | :49:54. | :50:00. | |
dangerous. You know that they can be a threat, so you are more alert. | :50:00. | :50:06. | |
I always carry this board. They could bite through it, but if I | :50:06. | :50:14. | |
stood here without it, he could lock on my leg. An easy target. You | :50:14. | :50:20. | |
stand behind a shield, you feel happy. I do not know if I would | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
feel happy! They are not just one of the largest and most dangerous | :50:23. | :50:29. | |
types of crocodile, they are one of the planet's most lethal predators. | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
They mainly live in Asia and Africa. They are responsible for killing | :50:34. | :50:42. | |
hundreds of humans every year. Let's get a bit of meat. What is it | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
you are feeding? Editor of rabbit and pork. We always try to | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
encourage them to come quite high, because it gives you a good chance | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
to inspect their belly, make sure the Health and everything is fine. | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
It is the only time of the week you can play with them. Where did you | :51:02. | :51:09. | |
learn all of this? They were not quite so big when we got them! We | :51:09. | :51:15. | |
learned on small animals. Have they ever bitten you? Since they have | :51:15. | :51:21. | |
been this size, we have been lucky. If it will bite, it will take | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
something off. The teeth work like the perforations on your car tax | :51:26. | :51:34. | |
disc. They break the skin, and they twist and take a mouthful off, is | :51:34. | :51:44. | |
:51:44. | :51:47. | ||
it to swallow. They cannot chew like a dog. This Mail decided that | :51:47. | :51:54. | |
they would have a fight, and I could see our investment disappear, | :51:54. | :52:02. | |
so I waded in, I grabbed their tails, and he turned around, his | :52:02. | :52:07. | |
mouth wide open, and came at me. 18 inches from my face, he stopped | :52:07. | :52:14. | |
dead. I believe they have got a certain amount of respect for us. | :52:14. | :52:21. | |
Nothing else give you a kick to work with it. It is satisfying with | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
cows and pigs, but to work with these, it is the ultimate buzz, you | :52:25. | :52:35. | |
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feel there is more of an When you are talking about waste | :52:36. | :52:42. | |
products, you feed them all sorts from the farm, what sort of things? | :52:42. | :52:46. | |
From the poultry industry, if you are taking chicken breasts of, | :52:46. | :52:50. | |
you're left with a carcass, which is mainly bone, but with flesh on | :52:50. | :53:00. | |
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it. They can take backbone, digest it, and turn it back into meat. | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
They can use what no other animal can. They Digest bone? Bones and | :53:05. | :53:12. | |
teeth. Their stomach acid is the strongest known. They have not | :53:12. | :53:17. | |
killed any crocodiles on site, but you do sell crocodile meat? We buy | :53:18. | :53:24. | |
some from South Africa or Zimbabwe. It has proved quite popular. The | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
best way to protect any animal is to make it acceptable on the table. | :53:29. | :53:35. | |
Cows, pigs, sheep, anything we eat, it never becomes endangered. | :53:35. | :53:45. | |
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finish feeding them, and then we What to most people expect? They do | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
not think it will be like this? That is the problem, everybody | :53:59. | :54:05. | |
thinks it will be red meat. They are shocked at to see that it looks | :54:05. | :54:13. | |
like fish. Very high protein. Some research believes this is what | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
changed monkey into man, the rich protein, that helped develop the | :54:16. | :54:23. | |
brain. Where is it eaten? Not in the northern hemisphere, but pretty | :54:23. | :54:30. | |
much everywhere else, Africa, Asia, Australia, South America. The | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
southern states of North America as well. It has been a while since I | :54:34. | :54:44. | |
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had this. I remembered it was the texture of fish. It is like fish | :54:45. | :54:51. | |
with the texture of pork, and very mild in flavour. It responds well | :54:52. | :55:01. | |
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to marinading. It is good, it is dense. I cannot quite put my finger | :55:04. | :55:11. | |
on what it tastes like. It varies. We are not slaughtering our own, | :55:11. | :55:17. | |
this was produced in Zimbabwe. This is fed on fish waste, which gives | :55:17. | :55:22. | |
it a fishy flavour. We have had some South Africa and, which was | :55:22. | :55:27. | |
fed more chicken and pork. That had a totally different flavour. So, | :55:27. | :55:33. | |
the diet plays a big park. Is it up there with your pork sausages? | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
Nothing ever beats sirloin steak, but that is the only meat to be | :55:38. | :55:46. | |
knighted in history! With this being the first and only crocodile | :55:47. | :55:51. | |
farm in the UK, it is an experimental journey. He has not | :55:51. | :55:56. | |
been able to hatch a viable egg, but with eight currently in the | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
incubator, maybe this will be his year. To be able to get the meat we | :56:01. | :56:08. | |
were tasting, you have to be able to breed them. How hard is it? | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
got through the first stage, the Mail has been copulating with the | :56:12. | :56:18. | |
females, and they can lay eggs. Now, we have to teach ourselves to hatch | :56:18. | :56:27. | |
the X. We need to run at 98, 99% humidity. If we go over that, which | :56:27. | :56:35. | |
ran the embryos and we try them out. And, choosing the right temperature. | :56:35. | :56:42. | |
The first ones we had, we want to keep them for breeding stock. | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
temperature of the eight dictates the sex of the baby crocodile? | :56:47. | :56:53. | |
That is amazing. Can we have a look? The main thing that, once | :56:53. | :57:00. | |
they are laid, they are kept at the same angle and not handled. These | :57:00. | :57:06. | |
are 90 days, the incubation period. They only have a few more weeks | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
before they are due to hatch, but if they are viable, the crocodiles | :57:10. | :57:16. | |
that will emerge will only be the length of a pencil. You have got no | :57:16. | :57:24. | |
idea how this is going? You are just hoping? We had bandying around | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
the outside in the early days, the centre of the aid going a different | :57:29. | :57:33. | |
colour from the ends, which are supposed to be a sign of fertility, | :57:33. | :57:39. | |
but 90 days is a long time to wait. If we have done anything wrong in | :57:39. | :57:45. | |
that process, we could have written them off all. It could be another | :57:46. | :57:52. | |
10 years to get it right. Good luck! | :57:52. | :57:57. | |
My journey has come to an end. I cannot believe what I found. From | :57:57. | :58:02. | |
beautiful waterways and wildlife to incredible history. This | :58:02. | :58:09. | |
fascinating county has more to offer than anybody could imagine. | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
What a lovely journey, Cambridge it is somewhere I am fond of all. It | :58:13. | :58:17. |