Bertie Gregory

I'm going to go sit next to him.

Sharks, leopard seals, lions, they all have a set of body languages, you know, of cues.

And it's our job to interpret those cues so that we can, you know, film them so that we're safe and they're safe and also try and interpret what they're going to do next.

And that's what I love is that

I found when I was starting out, I was crawling around.

I grew up in Reading near London and it wasn't a particularly wild place.

I lived near some farmer's fields.

I used to go into the farmer's fields and kind of try and sneak up on deer and badgers and kingfishers and whatever.

And everyone thought I was weird.

I was like 13, 14 when you should be, I don't know, trying to talk to girls or something.

I found that because I was starting to sort of by accident learn how to sneak up on these animals, I had my eyes open to this incredible world, all these dramas going on the whole time that everyone just walks past and has no idea.

So it's not as far as sort of Dr. Dolittle being able to talk to the animals, but-

you sort of have like this ability to interpret animal behavior that most people don't have.

And so you get this secret window into this other world.

So what's really amazing about filming things like lions, sort of, I guess, a safari setup where you're in a vehicle is that we benefit from the fact that some very smart people have been habituating lions and wild dogs and cheetahs and all those savanna animals to a vehicle.

And so they are completely aware that the vehicle's there.

You know, they can see it, they can smell it, they can hear it.

But because it has been in their landscape

for their entire life and their mother's life and their grandmother's life.

You are just part of the landscape.