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
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.