Life Story bbc1 - Dave Attenborough

First Steps New series. Naturalist David Attenborough documents the universal story that unites humanity with every other animal on the planet - the journey through life, and the goal to continue the bloodline through offspring. This edition focuses on the first hurdle any animal will face, surviving infancy. Cameras follow flightless barnacle goose chicks as they strive to find food, leaping 400ft down a cliff from the ledge where they hatched. Meanwhile, in New Zealand, young fur seals have stumbled across a safe haven in which they can learn how to avoid predators, while deep in the Gobi Desert, the long-eared jerboa learns to use its impeccable hearing to catch insect pray. Plus, albatross chicks make their first flight, as threatening tiger sharks wait patiently for them to slip up and land in the sea

Watching the Barnacle Geese play lemmings is heart renching

Mum ! You said it wouldn't hurt !

It's a pity we can't have versions of his programmes without manipulating music

Wow THREE survived that fairly intact. Incredible.

Amazing Orchid Mantid !

Mantis

The mantis don't look real, scale them up and they'd be like something out of Aliens V.

For fox sake :(

That's put a downer on the whole miracle of the suicidal baby geese.

Was a different family....fox young live though

Watched on good quality TV with HD and the pictures were amazing.

I have to say that some looked like they were animated.

I wonder if David Attenborough has ever actually left his hat in a burrow.

miserable anti-humanist

On again

Any death this week? I like these programmes but don't want to watch animals getting chomped. I understand that it happens, but watching it happen isn't my idea of entertainment.

Staggeringly beautiful photography as always. What a lovely animal the cheetah is. Such a lithe body, and grace of movement.

What is more lithe and graceful - a cheetah or Russell Brand?

Don't be ridiculous

On again

Roger The Butler • October 30, 2014 9:39 PM GMT
Any death this week? I like these programmes but don't want to watch animals getting chomped. I understand that it happens, but watching it happen isn't my idea of entertainment.

Couldn't agree more, Roger.