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''The Life of Mammals'' is a nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 20 November 2002. A study of the evolution and habits of the various mammal species, it was the fourth of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with ''Life on Earth''. Each of the ten episodes looks at one (or several closely related) mammal groups and discusses the different facets of their day-to-day existence and their evolutionary origins. All the programmes are of 50 minutes' duration except the last, which extends to 59 minutes. The series was produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in conjunction with the Discovery Channel. The executive producer was Mike Salisbury and the music was composed by Dan Jones and Ben Salisbury. It was later shown on Animal Planet. Part of David Attenborough's 'Life' series, it was preceded by ''The Life of Birds'' (1998), and followed by ''Life in the Undergrowth'' (2005). However, in between the former and this series, David Attenborough presented ''State of the Planet'' (2000) and narrated ''The Blue Planet'' (2001). == Background == The mammals are such a widespread, varied and successful group of animals that Attenborough had previously devoted no fewer than five episodes of ''Life on Earth'' to them. Nevertheless, there was much that remained untold and behaviour that was hitherto unfilmed. ''The Life of Mammals'' was intended to be his definitive account of the subject. Attenborough took on the series at the suggestion of the BBC Natural History Unit. The naturalist's wife, Jane, had died in 1997, midway through the making of ''The Life of Birds'', which had caused its postponement. However, Attenborough had been grateful for the fact that there was still work to be done to ensure its completion. Similarly, he was glad of another opportunity to keep himself occupied: "''The Life of Birds'' was transmitted in the autumn of 1998, and was sufficiently well received for the Unit to ask me if I would like to tackle another similar series about another group of animals. How about mammals? I was in my mid-seventies but I decided I would rather do that than sit at home by myself." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Life of Mammals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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