The Trials of Life

The Trials of Life is a 1990 produced by the BBC 12-part animal documentation of English Nature and behavioral scientist David Attenborough, which was shown several times in Germany under the title game of life.

Exemplary features Attenborough the essential features and stations human and animal life on the planet after.

Parts

• Birth
• Childhood
• Mate choice
• Reproduction
• Orientation
• Partners and parasites
• Searching for food
• Live
• Understanding
• Hunter and Hunted
• Allies and rivals

Others

Scientifically significant was the series, as it the team during filming for the first time succeeded in making real recordings -hunting chimpanzees. What has already been suggested several times, but never got fixed with certainty, so could be proved: the otherwise predominantly nourishing of plants monkeys are found together in special situations of food shortage and make organized hunt for eg Represent colobus monkeys, which drive them into the tops of trees there and pull apart the limbs downright four parts.

Striking the I-point of the series, however, was a worm -like parasite ( Leucochloridium paradoxum ), which affects the sensor of snails, developed there and to be able to eventually propagate can starts to flash and also " re-programming" the behavior of the snail on daytime activity, so that birds pay attention to the flashing sensor, attack the worm and so eat the worm. During later Koten separate them from eggs of the worm, which are reabsorbed by snails.

The music was originally written by George Fenton. Spokesman in the German version is the voice actor Axel Wostry by Bayerischer Rundfunk. The documentation is available in book and video form.

• Information broadcast (television)
• Documentary series
• Television series (United Kingdom)
• Animal film