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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stoggler" data-source="post: 1496411" data-attributes="member: 75203">I think the thing on the wolf spider last week was a clip from another programme shown previously.  This was also evidenced last week on the piece about cuckoo numbers, where they showed the first few minutes of another BBC wildlife programme about cuckoos that was shown about a month ago - it even had the Cambridge Uni prof on it.  So it seems that Springwatch seem to be short of things to fill their airtime and are using material from other programmes.  I don't think it's dumbing down for young children, as I remember similar things when I was a child that were pitched at that level.  You also had programmes like Animal Magic which gave humorous "human" voices to animals which could also be considered dumbing down.  I always thought the Really Wild Show got a good balance for children.</blockquote>