David Attenborough’s new documentary brings viewers to tears while watching

Viewers of a new David Attenborough documentary have been brought to tears by one very confronting scene. WARNING: Graphic.

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Viewers of David Attenborough’s latest series Seven Worlds, One Planet were left in tears on Sunday night during what they have described as the most traumatising episode yet.

In heartbreaking scenes, an orang-utan fought with a digger and hundreds of walruses fell off a cliff and died as they tried to escape a polar bear.

Those watching at home first started crying as they watched the walruses scramble over each other to avoid being attacked.

The distressing clip showed hundreds of them desperately trying to escape – only to fall from the edge and die.

A walrus falling after losing its footing when fleeing a polar bear.

The walruses were trying to flee a polar bear. Picture: BBC

Things got even worse when it switched to a forest in Borneo and a lone orang-utan was seen running along the last remaining tree trunk while being chased by two men and a digger.

His fight didn’t last long though as the digger won and bulldozed through – forcing the ape to fall.

The ape fell from the tree in distressing scenes. Picture: BBC

The men – who were actually trying to get it to a safe space in footage filmed last year – reached the exhausted orang-utan who appeared to be unconscious.

Genuine heartbreaking stuff on #SevenWorldsOnePlanet tonight. I’m not crying, you are!!

— Scott Campbell (@scambo_uk) November 3, 2019

Seven worlds one planet got me crying. So important that the reality of deforestation is being shown. Poor animals. Poor planet. 😭😭 #SevenWorldsOnePlanet

— ali (@alexandraJH_) November 3, 2019

The walruses I’m crying 😭 #SevenWorldsOnePlanet

— 🔮 MYSTIC PIDGE 🔮 (@MysticPidge) November 3, 2019

It's Sunday and I'm crying, recoiling in horror & screaming at the TV hoping that the walrus won't throw himself to his death. #DavidAttenborough #bbc1 #SevenWorldsOnePlanet

— heather Spencer (@heatherishiring) November 3, 2019

Taking to Twitter to discuss what they had witnessed, one person wrote: “Didn't expect to be crying over walruses tonight but here we are #SevenWorldsOnePlanet #Rip.”

A second added: “Also crying at the orang-utan pushing away the digger. my heart #SevenWorldsOnePlanet.”

Viewers were horrified as they watched an orang-utan come face-to-face with a digger. Picture: BBC

A third tweeted: “Literally crying through #DavidAttenborough’s #SevenWorldsOnePlanet at the Orangutan lashing out at the digger … what have we done and why didn’t we listen decades ago? My heart hurts.”

And a fourth heartbroken fan remarked: “It’s Sunday and I’m crying, recoiling in horror & screaming at the TV hoping that the walrus won’t throw himself to his death. #DavidAttenborough #bbc1 #SevenWorldsOnePlanet.”

The polar bear and walruses. Picture: BBC

The Sun previously revealed that the scenes of the walruses on David Attenborough’s BBC show had already aired on Our Planet, which was on Netlfix in April of this year.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission