It yesterday emerged BBC producers also misled viewers about footage of a frozen caterpillar in hit seven-part series Frozen Planet.
In an episode on November 2, Sir David said: “Beneath the rock the caterpillar is out of the wind, but the cold penetrates deep into the ground.
“Soon its heart stops beating, it ceases to breathe, and its body starts to freeze – first its gut, then its blood.”
The footage included a wide shot of the caterpillar’s natural habitat above ground, and a close-up of the creature beginning to freeze underneath snow and ice.
But some of it was actually filmed in an artificial habitat – in fact, a box.
Another scene involving snowflakes forming at close range was also set up and produced in a controlled environment using time-lapse photography.
The BBC admitted: “There’s a sequence with snowflakes which is set up – it’s filmed in a controlled situation, so they can get really close footage. And there’s another section with a woolly caterpillar, but the vast majority of it is filmed in the wild.”
In a further blow to wildlife fans, corporation bosses yesterday confessed that staging footage was standard practice in natural history programmes. They insisted such editing tricks were necessary to create the documentaries, and added the programme met the expected editorial standards.
"In a surprising justification for duping millions of viewers, the TV star argued that owning up to splicing archive film with real Arctic scenes during the programme would have spoiled the mood."Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/tv/2011/12/13/frozen-planet-scandal-sir-david-attenborough-defends-fake-polar-bear-footage-115875-23631238/#ixzz1gRM5MjEb
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