The Trials of Life: Fighting (VHS)

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The Trials of Life: Fighting (VHS)

Fighting is most usually an expression of competition - for food, for land or for a mate.

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• Number of tapes: 1
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Format: Color
• Languages: English

The stakes may be food, territory, a mate or survival. The strategies might be sophisticated or simplistic. Whatever the ingredients, physical conflict is a fact of life. And anthropologist Sir David Attenborough shines incredible, indelible light on these wars of the animal world. Follow the good fight to Alaska, where two behemoth bull moose square off; to Africa where giraffes wield their necks like sledgehammers; to the Middle East where a pair of ibex go head to head, literally. Witness all manner of weaponry – stingers, sirens, pincers, even the pistol shrimp’s “stun gun.” And, in a remarkably civilized tussle, two gazelles engage in a mysterious little ballet of nods and feints and circles to determine one’s superiority over the other.

1991 TimeLife Video