Frozen Planet fakery row: BBC filmed tender scene of mother polar bear with new born cubs at German ZOO

Flap Zappa Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:57 am

It was the BBC's landmark wildlife
documentary that was four years in the making and took intrepid
cameramen to the edge of the Earth to film.
But now it's been revealed the method used to capture key scenes might send a chill down the spine of Frozen Planet viewers.
Instead
of being filmed in their sub-zero natural habitat, the BBC has admitted
a polar bear and her cubs that were the centrepiece of the show were
caught on camera in a zoo.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073024/Frozen-Planet-fakery-row-BBC-filmed-polar-bear-cubs-German-zoo.html#ixzz1gJRp1F1E

this really isn't such a big deal as it would be practically impossible to film those shots in the wild without having almost 1 ton of agitated mother bear ripping your face off. Not exactly the worst thing the BBC has done over the years and pales in comparison to the blatant propaganda of episode 7.

and aren't the baby bears cute.
Frozen Planet fakery row: BBC filmed tender scene of mother polar bear with new born cubs at German ZOO Article-2073024-0F2551D900000578-18_634x357

Frozen Planet fakery row: BBC filmed tender scene of mother polar bear with new born cubs at German ZOO Article-2073024-0F2551D900000578-18_634x357

they stand more chance of dying from another polar bear than from man made ~~global warming~~ climate change