Natural World Season 28 Titus: The Gorilla King 2008
Abandoned as a baby, removed from normal gorilla family life as a youngster - so profound were the misfortunes that Titus suffered in his early years that no gorilla scientist could have predicted his eventual rise to power. His moving life story is pieced together here for the first time, based on archive film and the memories of field workers who have studied the mountain gorillas since Dian Fossey's pioneering work more than 40 years ago. At 33 years of age, Titus is not just one of the most powerful Silverbacks in Rwanda's Virunga Mountains, he is possibly the most remarkable gorilla ever known. His life story is as full of drama, intrigue and tragedy as any human soap opera. Against a stunning backdrop of misty volcanic peaks cloaked in bamboo and giant lobelia, Titus has successfully steered his family group through thick and thin. Now he is under pressure again. With his ally-turned-rival, Kuryama, jockeying for position, is the final chapter in Titus's extraordinary reign about to occur?
- Released: 2008-11-11
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: David Attenborough, John Hannah, Juliet Stevenson
- Director: Brian Jackman, Andrew Graham-Brown, Mike Birkhead
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1. Titus: The Gorilla King 2008-11-11
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2. Whale Shark 2008-11-18
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3. Clever Monkeys 2008-11-25
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4. Crocodile Blues 2008-12-02
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5. Cork - Forest in a Bottle 2008-12-09
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6. Great White Shark: A Living Legend 2009-01-02
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8. The Mountains of the Monsoon 2009-01-16
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10. Man-Eating Tigers of the Sundarbans 2009-01-30
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11. Elephants without Borders 2009-02-06
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12. Snow Monkeys 2009-02-13
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13. Cassowaries 2009-02-19
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14. A Farm for the Future 2009-02-20
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15. Iron Curtain: Ribbon of Life 2009-03-06
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16. Uakari: Secrets Of The English Monkey 2009-03-26
