Sony BBC Earth Mini Series Review
Title: Mammals   (6 episodes / 50-60 min each)
Narrated by David Attenborough
Series Producer: Scott Alexander
Rating: 4/5

This stunning new miniseries on Sony BBC Earth is focused on Mammals and their remarkable resilience and adaptability that allows them to survive against all odds.  As always, narrated by the 97-year-old, still sprightly Sir David Attenborough, with perfect intonations, precision and vivid, lucid elaboration, the series is a breathtaking tale of evolutionary specifics involved in combating a rapidly changing environment. From the Etruscan shrew, to stealthy leopards and social hyenas, species are spotlighted hunting, feeding, and going about their daily survival routines. We get to learn of little known mammal species and their vital roles within ecosystems. The intimate storytelling transports us into their world illuminating behaviors and adaptations with tremendous clarity. The use of groundbreaking camera techniques and night vision technology, lends deeper insight into their survival dance.

The six-part series takes us all across the globe, through extremes of weather and climate disasters while showcasing a range of animals in diverse habitats exploring their extraordinary capacity to adapt to a rapidly changing planet. Attenborough reveals how the extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago allowed mammals to become the most successful, adaptive group in the animal kingdom. The series employs cutting-edge technology to bring to us in graphic detail  how many of the 6000 mammal species use their intelligence, ingenuity and social bonds to thrive in fast changing high-risk habitats while human activity and rampant development stymie their natural environs and deplete their forest cover.