Nature's Notepad

With David Attenborough celebrating his 100th birthday this year, I wanted to share a bit about how he inspired me through the ground breaking work that he’s done. I grew up watching his documentaries, listening to his iconic voice and further fuelling my passion for the environment as I got older. Whenever I watched him on TV, I was always in awe of the exciting adventures he went on, witnessing nature’s phenomena up close. Figure 1. David Attenborough. I have watched many David Attenborough documentaries, but his Natural Curiosities  series remains as a top favourite of mine. It’s a bit more obscure compared to his other documentaries, as the whole purpose of the series is to investigate strange evolutionary occurrences and mysteries of the animal world. One episode I thoroughly remember was about Clever Hans, a horse living in the early 20th century that was able to answer mathematic problems by tapping the answer with his hooves. Attenborough set off to figure out whether Hans,...