The Trials of Life
Episode 02 - Growing Up. This episode describes the ways that various species care for their young. Attenborough defines childhood as
achieving two tasks: growing and surviving. He highlights the elephant seal as an animal that experiences a compressed
childhood, being abandoned after three weeks and left for up to another eight alone, while it becomes large enough to
be able to swim. For terns, there is safety in numbers as the dense population works together to drive out marauding
gulls. The snow geese in the Russian Arctic show intense devotion as they escort their goslings by foot to the coast some
50 kilometres away.
(from wikipedia.org)
| Episode 02 - Growing Up |
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