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Author of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and one of the best selling authors from Britain, Douglas Adams is featured in his video, which had been recorded at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This is apparenlty one of his last appearances, before his death in 2001.

Douglas Adams talks about his observations of some of the world’s most extraordinary creatures and animatedly shares his hilarious accounts and encounters with it.

The Aye-Aye: “I was a monkey looking at a lemur. And you suddenly think, there is a huge amount of history to this moment that we don’t think—we don’t realise—we carry around with us. Our roots in this planet go back an awfully awfully awfully long way, and we don’t tend to think about that very much. And it takes a confrontation like this to suddenly realise how sort of broad and deep your family goes. So I thought, well this is terribly interesting.”

The Komodo Dragon: “They don’t actually eat you sort of straight out, they don’t sort of lunge at you and just gobble you up. They sort of sneak around and they come and give you a bit of a bite. Because their saliva is so virulent that your wound would not heal and after a while you will die.”

He has had other encounters with several exotic animals, and you will find his stories really amusing in this video.

You may be interested in:

1. 

   The Brain: Our Universe Within – Discovery Channel
2. 

   Growing Up in the Universe (lecture) – Richard Dawkins
3. 

   Are We Alone In The Universe?
4. 

   The Known Universe