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The Life of Mammals

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David Attenborough looks at why mammals are the most successful creatures on the planet.

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The Life of Mammals - A Winning Design

David Attenborough looks at why mammals are the world's most successful creatures. He visits Australia to study marsupials, and mammals that have wombs.

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The Life of Mammals - Chisellers

David Attenborough looks at rodents, who possess incisor teeth with chisel-sharp enamel. Among the animals observed are the agouti, the beaver and the capybara.

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The Life of Mammals - Food for Thought

David Attenborough concludes his documentary series with a programme about the similarities and differences between humans and other mammals.

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The Life of Mammals - Insect Hunters

Nature documentary series. David Attenborough meets moles that can swim through sand, a shrew that hunts underwater, and the world's strangest bat in New Zealand.

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The Life of Mammals - Life in the Trees

David Attenborough continues his nature series. In this episode, he studies tree dwellers - mammals adapted to life at height, such as the hyrax and tamanduas.

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The Life of Mammals - Meat Eaters

Documentary series. David Attenborough looks at carnivores, from arctic foxes who cache food for winter, through pack-hunting wolves, to big cats.

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The Life of Mammals - Opportunists

Documentary series. David Attenborough looks at omnivorous mammals such as raccoons, bears, foxes and rats that eat whatever is around at the time.

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The Life of Mammals - Plant Predators

Documentary series. David Attenborough looks at some of the biggest predators on Earth, whose plant prey is armoured, indigestible and sometimes poisonous.

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The Life of Mammals - Return To The Water

David Attenborough continues his major documentary series with a look at marine mammals that have returned to the sea - from sea otters to the blue whale.

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The Life of Mammals - Social Climbers

David Attenborough looks at monkeys from around the world, including red howler monkeys, capuchin monkeys in the Costa Rican swamps, and guenons in West Africa.

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