Zoo Quest to West Africa

In September 1954, David Attenborough, cameraman Charles Lagus, Jack Lester and Alf Woods, both from the Zoological Society of London, embarked for Sierra Leone. For three months they meticulously surveyed the landscapes of Sierra Leone in search of nature’s rarest fauna. Although their primary target was Picathartes gymnocephalus (the White-necked Rockfowl), they hoped to return to London with a representative cross-section of the entire animal life in this part of Africa.