The third Attenborough, this sibling possesses neither the soothing but authoritative tones of David, nor the cinematic genius of Sir Richard.

But of the three, he proved himself to have a slight advantage when it comes to lobbing small forest-spirits over great distances, and so where his brothers were shipped off to the BBC and Film School respectively, he was taught the subtle art of hitting things with his branch-like appendages and trying not to squash his unwitting projectiles.