Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"He's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life"

That's Life's Gavin Campbell visits London Zoo, to see their exciting new attraction; an extremely rare Lir-pa Loof from the Himalayas. The Lir-pa Loof has been in quarantine at the zoo for six months, and finally goes on public display for the first time on April 1st. It's frankly incredible.

Among the fascinated onlookers is naturalist David Bellamy, who has dreamed of seeing one of these elusive creatures since he read about them in an encyclopaedia as a child.

Introduced by Esther Rantzen.


Clip taken from That's Life!, originally broadcast on BBC One, 1 April, 1984.





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