Description
A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.
In The Trials of Life Attenborough explores the ways animals use their bodies and the way they behave.
This book takes the twelve key stages in all animals’ lives – arriving, growing up, finding food, hunting and escaping, finding the way, home-making, living together, fighting, friends and rivals, talking to strangers, courting, continuing the line – and looks at how the solutions developed by different species are hugely varied and often astounding. But they are all the more comprehensible and engaging for they are the trials that we as a species face ourselves.
This is the third and last of Sir David’s great natural history books based on his TV series and completes his survey of the animal world that began with Life on Earth and continues with Living Planet.
