Stephen Fry seeks out endangered animals
Stephen Fry went in search of the northern white rhino
Stephen Fry, well known for his intellectual musings on programmes such as QI, has embarked on an exploratory journey of the natural world for his latest show Last Chance to See.
The BBC Two series sees Fry follow in the footsteps of naturalist Mark Carwardine and the writer Douglas Adams, who in 1985 embarked on a quest to find some of the world's most endangered animals.
In the new series, Fry joins Carwardine as he retraces his original footsteps in search of such elusive creatures as the Amazonian manatee, the northern white rhino and the Madagascan Aye-Aye.
The next episode of the series, due to be shown at 20:00 BST on Sunday (4th October), sees the intrepid pair track down the last remaining kakapo, a fat, flightless parrot that resides in the dramatic landscape of New Zealand.
It is thought that these birds have "forgotten" how to fly, but sometimes when threatened by a predator they will jump out of a tree and plummet to the ground.
They are also believed to be the longest-living bird in the world with a life expectancy of around 90 years.
In 1989, a Kakapo Recovery Programme was developed to move all the remaining kakapos to carefully-prepared, predator-free islands and there are now thought to be around 90 birds left.
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