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• Nature's Top 40
• Episode 1 - 40 to 37
• Episode 2 - 36 to 33
• Episode 3 - 32 to 29
• Episode 4 - 28 to 25
• Episode 5 - 24 to 21
• Episode 6 - 20 to 17
• Episode 7 - 16 to 13
• Episode 8 - 12 to 9
• Episode 9 - 8 to 5
• Episode 10 - 4 to 1

• Presenters
• Chris's Photo Tips
• Getting into the field
• How Top 40 was ranked
• About the series

Nature's Top 40
Nature’s Top 40 counts down to the UK’s number one wildlife spectacle. Wildlife experts ranked suggestions from the public to compile the UK’s Top 40.

Passionate about animals

• I've has always been passionate about animals. When I was five and we were living in Africa, I remember looking into long grass and thinking, 'I must go in there and find some bugs', but being just a little bit too frightened to go for it!
• I studied zoology at university and went on to do a PhD on chimpanzee psychology, where I compared chimp minds with childrens'. The real difference lay between male and female chimps: the girls paid attention to my experiments and did well, but the boys, sadly, chucked things and peed on me. They failed the tests!
• Right now, as well as presenting, I have been directing science documentaries and writing novels, as well as non-fiction books and articles on science and the environment.
• I also worked on the 91Èȱ¬ Two series Nature's Calendar and Hands on Nature with the same team and crew as Nature's Top 40.

A life in nature

• 91Èȱ¬ Nature's Top 40 has been a real pleasure to work on over the last few year. I've travelled to places which I wouldn't otherwise have gone to. It's always brilliant to visit places in this country as, like many people, I tend to travel abroad for holidays.
• One of my favourite spectacles is the displays of Bluebells in the spring - these flower carpets are simply stunning!
• As well as presenting, I also write books. My latest is called Sugar: The Grass that Changed the World. It involved travelling to interesting places like Barbados.
• In the meantime you can see me back on home territory presenting Nature's Top 40 on 91Èȱ¬ Two.
• I hope that you'll join me and my fellow presenters...

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