Mike Salisbury, wildlife filmmaker who made plants behave like characters, has died, aged 84

Mongabay
May 23, 2026, 7:28 pm103 ptsTrending
To Mike Salisbury, patience was not a virtue so much as a working method. Lions did not hunt on cue. Plants did not move at a human pace. Polar bears did not respect production schedules, or much else. The task was to wait, improvise, and find a way to show television audiences that the natural world was…

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