Trials of Life

Trials of Life is a BBC (in conjunction with The Australian Broadcasting Service and Turner Broadcasting System Inc.) natural history television series of twelve episodes, about animal behaviour, presented by David Attenborough, originally transmitted in October 1990.

The series took over three and a half years to make, during which time Atenborough travelled almost a quarter of a million miles.

The individual episodes are:

Arriving
Growing Up
Finding Food
Hunting and Escaping
Finding the Way
Homemaking
Living Together
Fighting
Friends and Rivals
Talking to Strangers
Courting
Continuing the Line

Each episode was just under 30 minutes long, recorded in 4:3 aspect ratio with stereo sound.

There was an accompanying book, and the series is available as a three- disc DVD set, with an extra, 50-minute feature The Making of Trials of Life.