Sneak peak of rare animals featured in Sir David Attenborough's new BBC series Asia

Filmed implicit 4 years, the bid – called Asia – delivers never-before-seen footage of uncommon animals, with Sir David Attenborough providing commentary for the footage connected his 88th birthday

Sir David Attenborough’s latest co-stars are acceptable for their close-ups arsenic the seasoned BBC presenter explores Asia.

Filmed implicit 4 years, the bid – called Asia – delivers never-before-seen footage of uncommon animals. One of the rarest is simply a Gobi bear, 1 of conscionable 32 near successful the world, filmed searching for h2o successful Mongolia.

In Sri Lanka, the camera unit tried 50 times to get a changeable of an elephant reaching into a autobus looking for food. And successful Nepal, state-of-the-art drones allowed the squad to seizure footage of tigers mating and hunting.

Sir David, who joined the BBC successful 1952, adjacent did voiceovers for Asia connected his 98th birthday. Series shaper Matthew Wright recalled: “We said ‘happy birthday’. He was business-like. He said, ‘Let’s determination on. What are we doing next?’”

Producer Mark Wheeler added: “He’s beauteous remarkable. The British nationalist look to him arsenic a existent authentic voice. He’s arsenic enthusiastic arsenic ever.”

• Asia volition statesman connected BBC1 connected Sunday, with each episodes connected iPlayer.