Paddington Bear celebrates his 50th birthday this year, but behind the
children’s story is a very real creature that still lives in Deepest Darkest
Peru - the Spectacled Bear. Little is known about the habits of this elusive
creature, and as narrator Stephen Fry reveals, many of our assumptions were
wrong. For years they were thought to be gentle vegetarians, but the latest
studies reveal a new and alarming side to this endangered bear.
