am watching on #PBS a #BBC documentary of the making of Sir David Attenborough’s LIFE ON EARTH. he just turned 100 and i just reckoned, I AM OLD ENOUGH to remember a time his older brother Richard was the more famous of the two.
for the babies: Sir Richard Attenborough was the old milliardaire of (the original) Jurassic Park.
so they were the first team to ever record a full pride of lions hunting?!?!? it’s not only because it happened over a few days, but it was because the lionesses were using their Land Rover as cover from the wildebeest they eventually attacked.
lionesses getting shit done with human tech.
d’awwwwww Diane Fosse
d’awww the baby gorillas are sitting on David. i remember how people were totally freaked out that they were able to record that.
David Attenborough is the secular St Francis of Assissi
the 1970s were so full of scientific hope in popular culture. we had Jaques Cousteau, David Attenborough, Carl Sagan, Diane Fosse, Jane Goddall. it feels like it was a loooong time ago.
today is #MothersDay. i remember when THING1 kicked me hard enough for me to reckon, OMG A HUMAN IS INSIDE ME.
to this day, i admit i became a mother because i see motherhood as my own “Mutual of Omaha, Wild Kingdom”. my babies were my portal to living in my own human zoo (shoutout to Desmond Morris).
yeah. am a dork.
the thing is, the more i learned to see us as apes, the more i understood how powerful empathy is, especially in motherhood.
gorillas made me a better mom.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦