{"id":266178,"date":"2025-11-16T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266178\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:23:13","slug":"bbc-one-kingdom-filming-lions-after-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266178\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC One &#8211; Kingdom &#8211; Filming lions after dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Juliette Martineau, Researcher and Assistant Field Producer<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image lazyload \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/p0mfsq44.jpg\"  data- alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lions spend roughly 80 per cent of their time lying down. As a result, three years into filming Kingdom, the vast majority of the hours I had spent in their company had been spent watching them sleep. Assigned on my first night shoot, I was about to experience for myself that following those big cats in the dark is a very different proposition. On a hot late afternoon, equipped with a military-grade thermal camera in a specially adapted filming vehicle, we were heading off to find the pride.<\/p>\n<p>Inevitably, we arrived to find some very sleepy cats. But as the sun set in blazing colours and the light got dimmer, the lionesses slowly started to stir: getting up, stretching, yawning. And then, they all started to roar. A roar is a long-range advertisement, designed to be picked up at a distance. Close up, you can hear all the low frequencies in the sound. It resonates through your entire chest and taps into some real primal feelings of fear\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Juliette Martineau, Researcher and Assistant Field Producer Lions spend roughly 80 per cent of their time lying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-266178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}