Life Story
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- Episode
- Episode Six - Parenthood
- Broadcast Info
- 2014 (58 mins)
- Description
- Raising offspring, continuing the line, is the next best thing to immortality. But it’s far from easy... Some parents risk their own lives for their offspring. After laying her eggs in the best possible location, a mother green turtle races time and tide to survive, while a mother bison must fend off an entire pack of wolves, to protect her precious calf. There’s no substitute for a mother’s love; a hanuman langur gratefully accepts the services of an apparently adoring babysitter, but must intervene when playtime gets too rough for her delicate infant. A devoted fork-tailed drongo mother is duped into caring for someone else’s offspring. Not so for a bonobo mother whose commitment to her son lasts a lifetime, in the most intimate wild footage captured of this species in a decade.
- Genre
- Research; Biology; Natural History
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Life Story". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/216587 (Accessed 11 Jan 2025)