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 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.

Gold title Sir David Attenborough is one of the world's leading naturalists and broadcasters and a national treasure Trials of Life focuses on how animals behave and why, making it the most dramatic of the three volumes of the Life Trilogy Fully updated by Sir David Attenborough and expert scientist consultants to include the most recent developments and discoveries Includes a 64-page full-colour plate section of some of the very best nature photography, captioned by Sir David Attenborough Competition: Life on Earth;My Life on Earth;Our Planet;Into the Tangled Bank;Earthshot;Entangled Life;Guns, Germs and Steel;Sapiens. Lev Parikian;Prince William;Merlin Sheldrake;Matt Baker;Jared Diamond;Yuval Noah Harari.