The veteran broadcaster reckoned that instead of helping the group, trapped in a ravine, they should have let nature take its course.
Sir David, 92, spoke out at this week’s launch of his landmark new series Dynasties.
He said: “Tragedy is a part of life, you know. You can’t have sunshine throughout your life. To have done anything else would only make matters worse and distort the truth.”
Dynasties, a follow up to last year’s Blue Planet II, starts on November 11.
It focuses on five species fighting for survival — chimpanzees, emperor penguins, lions, painted wolves and tigers.
One episode sees Sir David’s team build steps in an icy Antarctica ravine so a group of trapped penguins and their chicks can escape and hunt for food.
Producer Mike Gunton said: “How would this conversation be going if you said you saw them there and did nothing? I think you have to do it.”
But Sir David recalled an “absolutely agonising” experience filming a mother and baby elephant dying of thirst in a desert, where he wouldn’t step in to give them water.
He said: “All you’re doing is prolonging the death. So you make things infinitely worse.”
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