David Attenborough series on the natural history of the polar regions; Attenborough appeared on screen and authored the final episode, in addition to performing voiceover duties. Attenborough introduced and narrated the Unit's first 4K production "Life Story." For "Planet Earth II" (2016), Attenborough returned as narrator and presenter, with the main theme music composed by Hans Zimmer. In October 2014, the corporation announced a trio of new one-off Attenborough documentaries as part of a raft of new natural history programmes. "Attenborough's Paradise Birds" and "Attenborough's Big Birds" was shown on BBC Two and "Waking Giants", which follows the discovery of giant dinosaur
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild in the Wagi River area of Papua New Guinea. Attenborough also discussed bower birds, "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, ants and meerkats. Also covered in this episode were molecular genetics, and DNA fingerprinting, which was first developed at Leicester University (where his father was principal in earlier years). Attenborough included excerpts from his series "The Life of Birds", including a piece on hedge sparrows, and also explored Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees and their use of tools to crack nuts, and their hunting of colobus monkeys in groups. Attenborough showed the books containing the whole of the decoded human