The third installment of BBC’s breathtaking nature documentary “Life” is all about mammals. As always, this show offers astounding images of the Earth’s environments. For that alone it’s worth watching. But this episode also shows us the life, habitat, and behavior of some darn fascinating creatures: a rufous sengi (elephant shrew) in equatorial Africa running for her life; an aye-aye (lemur) on the prowl for food at night in Madagascar; meerkats nodding off on a warm day in the Kalahari Desert; coati, a South American kind of raccoon, rummaging for food in a gang of forty; fruit bats flying in their millions across the Congo forest through a thunderstorm on a full-moon night to Zambia; a clan of spotted hyenas attacking a pride of lions to steal their prey; a Weddell seal, the only mammal able to survive on Antarctica, the most hostile environment on Earth, feeding her youngster while shielding him from a blizzard; millions of reindeer trekking across the Arctic tundra; polar bears competing over the huge carcass of a bowhead whale; and forty-ton humpback whales (the largest animals on earth) rivaling with each other in a heat run for the favor of a single female. Just incredible.
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