Why Oscar winner Hans Zimmer likes composing for nature documentaries

'Planet Earth: A Celebration' pulls together sequences from 'Planet Earth II' and 'Blue Planet II' with a new narration from David Attenborough and a reworked score by Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea. Photo: Handout

The man who composed the music to The Lion King is just as comfortable with real lions, too.

Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer scores such stunning nature sequences as goofy flamingos on parade and lions hunting in the Namib desert for Planet Earth: A Celebration. The animals are acting on instinct and so is Zimmer, in a way.