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Very Few Species Have Survived Unchanged. There's One Called Lingula, Which Is A Little Shellfish, A Little Brachiopod About The Size Of My Fingernail, That Has Survived For 500 Million Years, But It's Survived By Being Unobtrusive And Doing Nothing, And You Can't Accuse Human Beings Of That.

People Talk About Doom-laden Scenarios Happening In The Future: They Are Happening In Africa Now. You Can See It Perfectly Clearly. Periodic Famines Are Due To Too Many People Living On Land That Can't Sustain Them.

Until Humanity Manages To Sort Itself Out And Get A Co-ordinated View About The Planet, It's Going To Get Worse And Worse.

People Are Not Going To Care About Animal Conservation Unless They Think That Animals Are Worthwhile.

Warm-bloodedness Is One Of The Key Factors That Have Enabled Mammals To Conquer The Earth, And To Develop The Most Complex Bodies In The Animal Kingdom. In This Series, We Will Travel The World To Discover Just How Varied And How Astonishing Mammals Are.