LAST WEEK, DAVID Attenborough visited Reddit to answer users’ questions as part of the community site’s Ask Me Anything section.
It gave rise to perhaps the greatest display of community effort and co-operation the online world has ever witnessed.
The glory began with this innocent question from lula2488:
when you see a predator attempting to take down prey, do you take sides? Who do you barrack for?
To which Attenborough answered:
You can’t take sides. If you interfered you would cause more deaths not less.
And there it began. Witness:
Here’s the transcription:
ONE_GUY_ONE_JAR: David is so hoodfishingforfish: Brought up in the Atten boroughtommos: Atten borough born and raised / In the jungles is where I spend most of my days
bikemaul: trekking out, waxwing, heron all cool / and shooting some new film, time-lapse of their stool
Watawkichaw: When a couple a flies, who were up to no good; started eating doodie off a plank of wood
Coypop: I tried one little bite and my crew just stared
sm11jf: And sent me to the Arctic to film polar bears
via @RobSamCreatives
COMMENTS (1)