![Alan Root, the wildlife filmmaker, was attacked by creatures great and small.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170831180346im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/8/5/6/o/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gy84za.png/1504158308144.jpg)
Wildlife filmmaker scarred by attacks from a hippo, an adder and a gorilla
Alan Root, a wildlife filmmaker who splashed through crocodile-infested rivers, piloted hot-air balloons over stampeding wildebeests and lost a "Coke bottle"-sized chunk of his calf to an angry hippopotamus, all while producing nearly two dozen acclaimed nature documentaries,has died aged 80.