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The Life of Mammals is a BBC (in conjunction with The Discovery Channel) natural history television series of ten episodes, written and presented by David Attenborough. It premiered on BBC One on 20 November, 2002.

The individual episodes are:

# "A Winning Design": focuses on monotremes and marsupials # "Insect Hunters": looks at insectivores, including anteaters and bats # "Plant Predators": looks at herbivorous mammals # "Chisellers": looks at rodents # "Meat Eaters": looks at carnivorous mammals # "The Opportunists": looks at oppotunistic and omnivorous mammals # "Return to the Water": looks at mammals that live in water, including seals and cetaceans # "Life in the Trees": looks at arboreal mammals # "Social Climbers": looks at monkeys # "Food for Thought": looks at apes and human societies

Each episode is just under 50 minutes long, recorded in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio with stereo sound.

Attenborough wrote the accompanying book (BBC Books, ISBN 0563534230), and the series is available as a four-disc DVD set, including several special features:

Original Score
Photo Gallery
Fact Files
Behind-the-Scenes
Video to Music

It is also included in The Life Collection
box set.

Part of David Attenborough's 'Life' series, it was preceded by The Life of Birds
(1998), and followed by Life in the Undergrowth
(2005). However, in between the former and this series, David Attenborough also narrated The Blue Planet
(2001).

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