Planet Earth III | BBC
Watch the rock climbing gobies of Bioko narrated by David Attenborough.
Episode 4, Freshwater
Discover amazing landscapes and the most amazing stories of animals on our planet, from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans, from the darkest caves to the hottest deserts with new technology.
In this episode you can see the rock climbing gobies of bioko filmed by the Drill Films team. These amazing fish and their incredible journey was first discovered by Justin Jay and Tania Escobar Orihuela while working on bioko island. We are happy to have told their story alongside so many incredible others in this landmark series. Planet Earth III captures the beauty of earth and the complexity of our planet at such a critical time.
In addition to our photgraphy, the Drill Films team gets a shout out in the credits as a special thanks for our dedication to wildlife filmmaking on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. This is in recognition to the hard work of our team and especially our on-island production coordinator Jana Lopez Alvarez.
Narrated by Sir David Attenborough and produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, we are proud to work with great storytellers and naturalists as we share the gobies of Bioko with the world.
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“To escape marine predators and to find ideal foraging grounds, the gobies have evolved to do an impossible task…”
-Justin Jay
Other Projects
Monkeys of Bioko
Smithsonian Channel
July 29th, 2020 the documentary Monkeys of Bioko will air for US audiences on the Smithsonian Channel. Drill Films and Gulo Films Productions worked on Bioko Island for a combined 12 months to create this first ever look at wild drills in their natural habitat. Monkeys of Bioko is the Smithsonian Channel’s version of Lost Kings of Bioko which aired in Europe late in 2019.
Lost Kings of Bioko
NDR Naturfilm
Off the coast of Central Africa lies an isolated island, covered by primeval rainforest and surrounded by dark ocean waters, inhabited by a greater variety of species than nearly any other place on Earth. This terra incognita is called Bioko. The ruler of this realm is one of the world's least known primate species, the drill. This film explores their secret lives and their island home which includes the nesting grounds of various sea turtles and the rugged caldera….
Primates
BBC Natural History Unit
Primates is a BBC Studios production that broadcasted April 26th 2020 and follows groups of our closest relatives from around the world. For us, most importantly, we get to see DRILLS!
From silverbacks in the Congo, to the newly described Tapanuli orangutan of Sumatra, Primates is a culmination of two years of filming to bring rare, if ever seen before images, to a global audience.