The Private Life of Plants - Season 1 - Eps 4: The Social Struggle
David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary battles for survival that are fought in the plant world. Cameras reveal how plants use every trick in the book in a bid to come out on top, from growing at different rates to courting and even capitalising on disaster, whether it be hurricanes, fires or being eaten by animals.
About The Private Life of Plants
Title: The Private Life of Plants
First Air Date: 1995-01-05
Last Air Date: 1995-02-09
Status: Ended
Rating: 8.9/10 (from 8 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 6
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: BBC
Synopsis
Without plants, there would be no food, no animals of any sort, no life on earth at all. Yet for most of the time their lives remain a secret to us, hidden, private events.The reason is merely a difference of time. Plants live on a different time-scale from ours. Though not obviously to the naked eye, they are constantly on the move: developing, fighting, avoiding or exploiting predators or neighbours, struggling to find food, to increase their territories, to reproduce themselves, to find and hold a place in the sun. We only need to learn to look.
Cast
David Attenborough
Self - Presenter
