The True Nature of Nature, from Craig Mee
David Attenborough did an interesting AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit. Nature, it seems, is full of lies, murder and downright meanness.
What has been your most distressing/upsetting moment in your career?
Seeing chimpanzees kill monkeys, they do this to eat them. They chase them, set an ambush, catch them, and tear them apart…
A chimpanzee does in fact tell lies. If you can believe that. Also, when some Colobus monkeys find a very precious piece of food, it calls the alarm call that it would make if a snake were to arrive, and all the other monkeys run away and it gets the food.