The Life of Mammals
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The Life of Mammals is a BBC (in conjunction with The Discovery Channel) natural history television series of ten episodes, about mammals, written and presented by David Attenborough, originally transmitted in 2002.
The individual episodes are:
- A Winning Design - focusses on monotremes and marsupials
- Insect Hunters - looks at insectivores, including anteaters and bats
- Plant Predators - looks at herbivorous mammals
- Chisellers - looks at rodents
- Meat Eaters - looks at carnivorous mammals
- Opportunists - looks at oppotunistic and omnivorous mammals
- Return to the Water - looks at mammals that live in water, including seals and cetaceans
- Life in the Trees - looks at arboreal mammals
- Social Climbers - looks at monkeys
- Food for Thought - looks at apes and human societies
Each episode was just under 50 minutes long, recorded in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio with stereo sound.
There was an accompanying book, and the series is available as a four- disc DVD set, including several special features:
- Original Score
- Photo Gallery
- Fact Files
- Behind-the-Scenes
- Video to Music
External links
- BBC Online's Life of Mammals pages (http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/tv/)