PLEASE dont compare Steve Ewin to SIR David attenborough. Daved Attenborough has gained world wide recognition and is respected my most highest authoraties for his work in educating the general public with global flora and fauna issues. He has managed to do this without being a loud mouth, a show pony and without acting in rediculous movies to premote himself. Daved Attenborough has gained his recognition through hard work, and many many many years of it, not by making the biggest noise he can to get noticed as fast as possible.
In Davids documentaries you will see endless amounts of animals interacting in their natural habitat, mating, feeding young, hunting, and going about every day activities, followed by lots of infomation on the species. In steve erwins shows you see him catch just about everything, pick it up, play with it, then he bosts about how good he is for catching it, and how much it hurts when it bites, then gives you a very brief description and lets it go. Davids documentries have led to the discovery of many new behavioural trates in different animals, and a few times have even been the first time a certain species has been filmed in the wild. Steves shows discover nothing, cause he runs around catching things then tells us a species description someone else has put the time and effort and research in finding out.
It is much easier to catch an animal and restrain it, then it is to have a skilled team to spend hours or days or weeks observing it in its natural habitat. The two are uncompairable.
