Podcast downloads for The Real Story. Global experts and decision makers discuss, debate and analyse a key news story. Episodes to download. Part: 1 First Steps In the first episode, animals overcome their first great hurdle - surviving infancy. Good homes are rare and competition can be intense — finding a home is one thing, but defending it is quite another.
Those who are successful know when to fight or back down, when to cooperate or to go it alone and how to manipulate and deceive. But power is the ultimate prize: animals will use any means to rise through the ranks and win the game of life.
Competition to win a partner …has created some of the most extraordinary beauty and life-threatening violence anywhere in nature. Dazzling colours, elaborate dances and powerful weapons have all evolved to attract and defend a mate.
The stakes could not be higher: without a mate, the journey of life ends here In the final challenge of the game of life, raising offspring is the ultimate prize. Continuing the line through the next generation, is the next best thing to immortality. Simply put, "First Steps" looks amazing.
It is gorgeously filmed, done in a completely fluid and natural, sometimes intimate a great way of connecting even more with the animals , way and never looking static. In fact much of it is remarkably cinematic with some of the shots being unique for a documentary series, making one forget that it is a series. The editing is always succinct and smooth and the scenery is pure magic, similarly really admired the wide-ranging diversity of the different landscapes rather than restricting it to just one habitat.
The music score fits very well, never overly grandiose while never being inappropriate. In terms of the facts there was a very good mix of the known ones and the unknown, some facts being familiar to us while going into detail about the different animals and the various stages in their life and the challenges they face in their first steps.
The mantid sequence especially is powerfully telling. As always with Attenborough, found myself learning a lot despite not being a slouch when it comes to some of the knowledge. Narration by Attenborough helps significantly. He clearly knows his stuff and knows what to say and how to say it.
He delivers it with his usual richness, soft-spoken enthusiasm and sincerity, never talking down to the viewer and keeping them riveted and wanting to know more. Really cared for what was behind the camera as well as the front. The animals are big in personality and very diverse. Main content. Watch now. First Steps Life Story Series 1. Show more. Show less. Available now 59 minutes.
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