The Trials of Life
A Natural History of Animal Behaviour

Array ‘This is, quite simply, the best thing I’ve ever done.’ Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, , 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 world that began with and continues with . In , Sir David showed how each group of animals evolved. In he looked at the way they have adapted to the whole range of habitats in which they live. Now, in , he completes the story by revealing how animals behave – and why.