39 Season
543 Episode
Natural World - Season 3 Episode 9 Kinabalu - Summit Of Borneo
The highest peak in south-east Asia, Kinabalu, was once a mountain of legend and fable. To Chinese adventurers it was the abode of a dragon, rumored to guard a pearl by a lake at the very summit. Today's visitors have yet to find a pearl.... or see a dragon ... but there are riches of another kind. A cool island rearing precipitously from the hot and humid lowlands, Kinabalu is a treasure-house of plant and animal life. Bizarre carnivorous pitcher plants, big enough to drown a rat, share its slopes with huge begonias and stately tree-ferns. Flamboyant rhododendrons shelter the elusive ferret badger as it hunts for giant worms, and there are nearly 1,500 kinds of orchid, many found nowhere else in the world.
- Year: 2020
- Country: United Kingdom, France
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: BBC Two
- Keyword: wildlife, animals, nature, environment, nature documentary
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- Cast: David Attenborough, John Hannah, Juliet Stevenson