For Stoinski, that original gorilla moment has made a lasting impact because of the surprise and joy it brought to viewers.<\/p>\n
“We can see so much of ourselves, we can really relate to their behaviour because it is so similar to ours. Any three-year-old might want to come and sit on your lap and use you as a piece of furniture. The baby gorilla, Pablo, was doing the same thing to David. <\/p>\n
“And the trust, I think was something that maybe surprised people… they didn’t realise you could be that way with the gorillas.”<\/p>\n
And in Life on Earth, a series with a serious scientific purpose, this lively, unexpected encounter in the undergrowth became a key message. Instead of us looking at nature, the friendly gorilla family upended the narrative and took on the role of the curious observer of a mysterious ape called Attenborough.<\/p>\n
The imagined gap between humanity and nature vanished. Gorillas were not jungle beasts, they had rich emotional lives, cooperating, caring, fighting, learning and adapting.<\/p>\n
As Attenborough said in the original footage: “We see the world in the same way as they do.”<\/p>\n
There is good reason this gentle, affectionate meeting between genetic cousins has become a TV landmark.<\/p>\n
Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure, airs on Sunday 3 May on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Stoinski, that original gorilla moment has made a lasting impact because of the surprise and joy it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-415930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}