NG Kids: Where is your favourite place to film animals? Steve has a hairy moment when he handles this venomous centipede! I’d love to film a blue whale, leopard seals in Antarctica, and get a really good sequence of wild wolves to put on my show, too! Steve: Oh there are thousands of creatures that I’ve still got to tick off my list. NG Kids: What creature would you like to film that you haven’t had the chance to yet? All of a sudden a pod of the whales came to the surface to gulp down mouthfuls of herring and very nearly swallowed me and my kayak as well! Steve: Sure, one day I was filming humpback whales in a sea kayak in Alaska. NG Kids: Can you tell us about one scary moment that stands out in your mind? Steve gets close with a venon-spitting cobra snake! But, luckily, I have a really good team around me and we all make sure we take care of each other. Steve: Things go wrong all the time as you can’t predict how an animal is going to behave. NG Kids: Has anything ever gone wrong while you were filming your show? Whereas, large mammals like big bull elephants are about as frightening as animal encounters get! I do a lot of work with venomous snakes and spiders and so those critters don’t scare me because I understand them very well. Steve: Yes, sometimes, but not of the animals you’d probably expect. NG Kids: Do you ever get scared when you’re filming extreme creatures? For instance, I just got back from filming thresher sharks in the Philippines – they have a tail that’s twice as long as their body which they use for thrashing and herding their prey. In Deadly 60 we look at their danger to other animals and the phenomenal abilities they show when they’re hunting prey. Steve: Wild animals are generally not dangerous to people unless they do something to threaten them. NG Kids: Which is the most dangerous animal you have filmed? Steve: Hi NG Kids! There have been too many to pick just one, but one of the most remarkable creatures was a Humboldt squid, which we filmed for Deadly 6. It was larger than me and nearly sucked a chunk out of my head! NG Kids: Hi Steve, what’s the most amazing animal you’ve encountered? NG Kids chats with Deadly 60′ s Steve Backshall to learn all about his encounters with some of the world’s most dangerous animals…
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