The Trials Of Life: A Natural History Of Animal Behaviour

The Trails Of Life is the final book in David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life Triology of natural histories. Life On Earth traced the development of animal life from its beginnings some three thousand million years ago until today and Living Planet concentrated on how plants and animals interact. In The Trails Of Life Attenborough explores the ways animals use their bodies and the way they behave.

The Trails Of Life 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 trails that we as a species face ourselves.