David Attenborough strikes again. What more can I say?
This time, he takes on some of our own kind: mammals. Yes, this is "Life of Mammals", the documentary.
Meet beavers building their huge dams, racoons swarming all over American cities (now I understand why blogger John Michael Greer believes that racoons will eventually evolve into the next intelligent species!), hedgehogs in Attenborough's own backyard, kangaroos, orang-utans trying out saws and hammers (Planet of the Apes, anyone?), chimps on a stampede...you get the picture.
The deepest mystery: why do tree-living sloths insist on defecate on the ground, where they are easy pray? Unintelligent design, anyone? As usual, Attenborough inserts himself into the action, at one point trailing a Siberian tiger. For once, he's cheating - the tiger lives behind a fence, and I don't blame David for not getting inside the fenced area!
I haven't seen this particular DVD, so this is a review of the show itself, which I've seen elsewhere.
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