He’s been menaced by a hippo, stalked by a polar bear, bitten by a crocodile and throttled by a python. As his new one-man theatre show begins, Steve Backshall on…Â My most death-defying adventures
The humble shrimp is hardly the first thing that would spring to mind if you were going to have a creature named after you. But Britain’s best-known wildlife daredevil, TV presenter Steve Backshall, is thrilled to have had a newly discovered species christened the Backshall Snapping Shrimp. ‘It’s got one giant claw and one tiny