Overview
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour was a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom in October 1990.
A study in animal behaviour, each of the twelve 50-minute episodes features a different aspect of the journey through life, from birth to adulthood and continuation of the species through reproduction.
P.S. Bird weaver is a genius.
This is the final part of the "The Life Trilogy". This time, the audience will be shown not so much the wonders of physiology or adaptation of organisms, as the wonders of their behavior. David Attenborough talks about the most interesting species survival strategies and tactics for solving individual daily tasks in the wild. Instincts filtered out by natural selection, and all kinds of inherited and acquired reflexes made animals capable of absolutely amazing actions (I just wanted to write actions)) - skillful construction, orientation and research, maintenance of social hierarchy, fantastic mating games, unusual interspecies relationships, self-education and offspring training, very complex tactics and tricks.
An abundance of extremely entertaining, sometimes up-to-date factual material with wonderful, often unique video illustrations and sensible substantive comments. A sample of an excellent popular science series. It is competent and informative, accessible and visual, informative and interesting. I definitely recommend it.
Language. Attenborough is an excellent presenter, he comments not only interestingly, competently and intelligibly to the point, but also perfectly from the point of view of the language - correctly, naturally and clearly, with excellent pronunciation and without unnecessarily complex constructions. If it weren't for some of the names and terms, it would be possible to do without subtitles altogether.