大象传媒

Sean is in the Lake District taking a look at some of the jobs working animals do. He joins Cockermouth Mountain Rescue team to see search and rescue dogs in action and he meets 15 week old Jura, a Border Collie pup learning the ropes from the older dogs. Then he is off to see George Newton and his two Dales ponies, Charlie and George. They work the forests for timber as they are able to get to places that normal machinery cannot. But Sean is surprised to find that the biggest job is being done by the smallest creatures; beetles. Katy Dainton and her team at Forest Research are using a predatory beetle to attack the destructive spruce bark beetle which threatens thousands of trees in commercial plantations. We will also be going back through the archives to take another look at other working animals we have featured; including some laid back donkeys Matt spent time with on the Isle of Wight. The runner ducks that gave Anita the run-around in Norfolk. And the mallards that John saw munching their way through acres of pond weed at Blenheim palace.