The remarkable and often perilous story of the journey through life. It is a story that unites each of us with every animal on the planet, because we all set out on this journey from the moment we are born. For animals there is just one goal in life – to continue their bloodline in the form of offspring. This series follows that journey through its six crucial stages: first steps, growing up, finding a home, gaining power, winning a mate and succeeding as a parent.
The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.
The Life Story team spent 1900 days filming the series, in 29 countries across six continents. They traveled a total of 1,850,798 miles - the equivalent of circling the globe 78 times.
Fur seals and flightless barnacle goose chicks fight to survive the challenges of infancy.
David Attenborough explores the courtship displays of flame bowerbirds and pufferfish.
To gain power an animal must find a way to rise through the ranks of its society.
Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.
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