Life Story: Life Story
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Synopsis
This documentary series follows wild creatures in their native habitats as they navigate the perilous journey from birth to adulthood and beyond. Make no mistake about it: Animals play the game of life with just as much gusto as human beings.
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David Attenborough
Life Story: Life Story
Season 1 of Life Story has 12 episodes. Because different Netflix countries have different availability for episodes, you'll need to check the episode listing below to see which are available in the USA.
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The lives of animals are traced through six stages: infancy, growing up, finding a home, gaining power, winning a mate and succeeding as a parent.
- October 3, 2017
Once mature, animals must strike out on their own and learn to survive without their parents, navigating the thin line between life and death.
- October 3, 2017
Animals ensure their survival by finding shelter from the elements and their enemies. But good homes are rare, and the competition can be intense.
- October 3, 2017
Power is the ultimate prize. Animals will use any means to rise through the ranks and give themselves a chance of winning the game of life.
- October 3, 2017
Competition to win a mate creates some of the most dazzling beauty and life-threatening violence anywhere in nature, as creatures strive to survive.
- October 3, 2017
The struggle to win nature's only prize -- continuing the family line -- is not easy. Some parents must risk their own lives for their offspring.
- October 3, 2017
A camera crew battles boredom and challenging camera angles to film days-old barnacle goslings leaping from their 400-foot-high cliff-side nest.
- October 3, 2017
Crews brave hours of waiting in frigid, brutally windy conditions to document the behavior of the elusive Arctic fox.
- October 3, 2017
A small crew travels to a remote part of Zambia to capture footage of a wild dog hunt, but finding the animals proves difficult.
- October 3, 2017
As a crew come face-to-face with a group of wild chimpanzees in Senegal, they must be careful not to introduce disease as they track the troop.
- October 3, 2017
Hoping to document the complex geometric nests made by a pufferfish, the camera crew constructs elaborate rigs for an ad hoc underwater film studio.
- October 3, 2017
Cameramen endure weeks in the Congo battling heavy vegetation, soaking humidity and swarms of biting insects to film bonobo chimpanzees in the wild.
- October 3, 2017
