Games of life

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The Trials of Life is a 12-part animal documentary by the British naturalist and behavioral scientist David Attenborough produced by the BBC in 1990 , which was shown several times in Germany under the title Games of Life .

Also under the name Games of Life , 6 parts of " The Secret Life of Plants " were produced. Also commented on by the English naturalist and behavioral scientist David Attenborough

As an example, Attenborough traces the essential characteristics and stations of human and animal life on the planet.

Parts

Games of Life: Animal Documentaries

  • birth
  • childhood
  • Partner choice
  • Reproduction
  • orientation
  • Partners and parasites
  • Search for food
  • Living
  • understanding
  • Fight
  • Hunter and hunted
  • Allies and rivals

Games of Life: The Secret Life of Plants

  • hike
  • To grow
  • Blooming
  • The social struggle
  • Living together
  • to survive

Others

The series became scientifically significant when the team first succeeded in taking real pictures of chimpanzees hunting . What has already been suspected several times, but has never been established with certainty, has been proven in this way: The monkeys, which otherwise mainly feed on plants, come together in special situations of food shortage and make organized hunts for e.g. B. Colobus monkeys, which they drive into the top of the trees, place there and literally divide into four by pulling the extremities apart.

The distinctive i point of the series, on the other hand, was a worm-like parasite ( Leucochloridium paradoxum ), which attacks the antennae of snails, develops there and, in order to be able to reproduce, begins to flash and also "reprograms" the behavior of the snail for daytime activity, so that birds become aware of the flashing antennae, attack the snail and thus eat the worm. Later on they excrete worm eggs, which are then taken up by snails.

The music is originally from George Fenton . The voiceover in the German version is the voice actor Axel Wostry from Bayerischer Rundfunk . The documentation is available in book and video form.