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The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. 'This is, quite simply, the best thing I've ever done.' Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, The Trials of Life, upon which this book is based. This is the third and last of Sir David's great natural history books based on his TV series and competes his survey of the animal show more world that began with Life on Earth and continues with Living Planet. In Life on Earth, Sir David showed how each group of animals evolved. In Living Planet he looked at the way they have adapted to the whole range of habitats in which they live. Now, in Trials of Life, he completes the story by revealing how animals behave - and why. show lessTags
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Companion to the TNT Television series. A Natural History of animal behavior
LA APASIONANTE LUCHA DE LOS ANIMALES DESDE EL NACIMIENTO HASTA LA MUERTE POR SOBREVIVIR Y PERPETUAR SU ESPECIE. UN RIGUROSO ESTUDIO DE LAS PRUEBAS A LAS QUE SE ENFRENTARA LA VIDA.
Feb 4, 2016Catalan
Mostrando las distintas formas en que los animales consiguen obtener su sustento. Los animales no crean su propia comida, como lo hacen las plantas, por lo que deben dedicar grandes esfuerzos para encontrarla.
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- Canonical title*
- Vaarallinen seikkailu : Eläinten käyttäytyminen luonnossa
- Original title
- The Trials of Life : A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
- Original publication date
- 1990
- Related movies
- The Trials of Life (1990 | IMDb)
- First words
- It is midnight on the coast of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, two hundred miles south of Java.
Introduction: This book, and the television series that was filmed at the same time as it was being written, is the last in a trilogy of natural histories. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then it is their turn to carry the genes through yet another cycle of the never-ending trials of life.
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- Morris, Desmond
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- Do not combine with "The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour: Reader's Digest Augmented and Enlarged Edition".
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