The Trials of Life Quotes

“Every year, female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly two thousand kilometres up to the southern United States. They are pregnant and seeking nursery accommodation of a particular kind. If”
― David Attenborough, The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour

“in a massed colony, outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud, shrieking angrily, diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack.”
― David Attenborough, The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour

“For parents, it is only too long a period of encumbrance and handicap during which they are saddled with young who demand continual feeding, who reduce their freedom and regularly expose them to danger.”
― David Attenborough, The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour

“Childhood is an urgent time.”
― David Attenborough, The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour

“The kangaroo’s pouch, however, is a deep bag that opens just beneath her chest.”
― David Attenborough, The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour

“The Latin word for ‘breast’ is mamma and mammals produce milk.”
― David Attenborough, The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour

“Pepsis, a giant among wasps with a ten-centimetre wingspan, lives in South America and grapples with bird-eating spiders as big as a human hand. After paralysing them, she amputates their legs to make the job of transport a little easier.”
― David Attenborough, The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour