Name: Attenborough & the Giant Egg
Released: 2011-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: David Attenborough

TV Show · Documentary

In 1961, David Attenborough was handed a very special memento while filming in Madagascar: egg fragments belonging to the largest ever bird. Now, with the egg pieced together, he returns to the island, seeking clues to its past and perhaps, to its future.

2011 · 52m

Starring David Attenborough

Director Sally Thomson

EPISODE 1

Attenborough and the Giant Egg

On a hot day in 1961, while filming Zoo Quest a Malagasy boy handed the young David Attenborough some pieces of a huge egg shell found on a sandy river bank. Since David's Zoo Quest, Madagascar has changed dramatically.

52m