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The Trials of Life

The show explores the journey of life, covering birth, adulthood, and the continuation of the species through reproduction, with each 50-minute episode focusing on a unique of aspect this journey.

Episodes:

Episode 1 Arriving

1. Arriving

Aired: Oct 4, 1990

The first dangerous step into a hazardous world. From egg laying to live-bear...

Episode 2 Growing Up

2. Growing Up

Aired: Oct 11, 1990

For some baby animals, the care of diligent parents smooths the way to adulth...

Episode 3 Finding Food

3. Finding Food

Aired: Oct 18, 1990

Finding enough to eat is a problem which faces every animal on the planet and...

Episode 4 Hunting and Escaping

4. Hunting and Escaping

Aired: Oct 25, 1990

Kill or die. Escape or perish. Such life and death duels are fought on a dail...

Episode 5 Finding the Way

5. Finding the Way

Aired: Oct 31, 1990

How do animals find their way around the globe with such extraordinary accura...

Episode 6 Homemaking

6. Homemaking

Aired: Nov 7, 1990

To create their hugely varied homes, animals become potters and plasterers, w...

Episode 7 Living Together

7. Living Together

Aired: Nov 14, 1990

Whole communities of different kinds of animals have been committed by evolut...

Episode 8 Fighting

8. Fighting

Aired: Nov 21, 1990

Fighting is most usually an expression of competition - for food, for land or...

Episode 9 Friends and Rivals

9. Friends and Rivals

Aired: Nov 28, 1990

Many animals find it advantageous, essential even, to live in social groups w...

Episode 10 Talking to Strangers

10. Talking to Strangers

Aired: Dec 5, 1990

An exploration of the enormous variety of ways in which animals communicate a...

Episode 11 Courting

11. Courting

Aired: Dec 12, 1990

In the animal kingdom all sorts of methods are employed to attract the best m...

Episode 12 Continuing the Line

12. Continuing the Line

Aired: Dec 19, 1990

A look at the ingenious strategies employed by animals in their desperate att...

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Info about The Trials of Life

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary