Martin Pailthorpe
Will Work
for Nuts
PD
Zany and madcap, but ultimately educational series in which animals are put through a series of enlightening challenges to show how they use their senses to home in on sources of food, or (in the case of the goldfish who learned to play table football) can be trained using food as rewards.
I directed two sequences - in the first, bird handler Lloyd Buck released his falcon from a hill over a kilometer away from fellow presenters James Cooper and Matty Thompson on a trails bike. With James driving the bike, Matty waved a lure over his shoulder - the bird was able to spot the food and home in on it as the bike raced away from him at over 50 mph
In the second, model racing cars were disguised as small rodents, and a kestrel was released as they raced down the track, to see how accirately the bird could reposnd to chances in speed and direction before swooping to `kill'
