“The only way that you know… they’re there is that you might be strolling through the countryside and you hear the sound of a lavatory being flushed, and that’s an earthworm a foot or so beneath your feet gurgling along, squelching along its tunnels,” he said. Sir David says he rates the giant worms as one of the most weird and wonderful creatures he has come across. The footage was included in his documentary Life in the UndergrowthĪ colony of giant earthworms was uncovered during roadworks near Korumburra and local zoologists contacted the BBC. In 2005 Wildlife documentary maker Sir David Attenborough spent two days in South Gippsland, in south-east Victoria, filming giant earthworms. Read More… Attenborough flushing out giant earthworms But while these worms only surface during heavy rains to avoid drowning in soggy soil, you can actually hear them underfoot.
Its habitat, once dense forests, has been almost entirely converted to farmland, where tilling and toxins have pushed them to the brink of extinction. This is an extremely vulnerable species, isolated to just 150 square miles at the southeast tip of Australia.
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