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15 amazing animal pictures from Life Story

BBC One is bringing us yet another amazing David Attenborough masterpiece. Life Story is the latest nature program to look at the beauty of animals, this time focusing on their first days of life - expect a lot of cute pictures of baby animals!
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David Attenborough with baby meerkats

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David Attenborough's latest project Life Story has taken four years to make and looks at the first days of animals' lives.

Episode one airs on BBC One, Thursday 23 October at 9pm.

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Elephants

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Baby elephants survive with the fierce protection of the rest of their herd.

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Lion cubs

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Baby lion cubs love to play with one another.

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Baby meerkat

Organism, Skin, Soil, Facial expression, Adaptation, Organ, Terrestrial animal, Fawn, Snout, Wildlife,
Baby meerkats spend their first few weeks learning how to find food by sticking close to the group and often being fed - until they can do it themselves.

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Baby geese

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There is a point at which these Barnacle Geese have to leap 400 feet down a cliff in Greenland to join their parents.

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Black-footed albatross

Daytime, Bird, Brown, Organism, Vertebrate, Beak, Wing, Adaptation, Ecoregion, Wildlife,
Albatross spend their first few months learning to fly. They are later known to stay away from land for 5-10 years.

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Arctic fox

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Arctic foxes are known to mate for life so both mother and father raise their pups.

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Arctic fox

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Arctic foxes are adapted to hear pray under the ice. They then leap up to break it and find food.

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Humpback whales

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Humpback whales push their calves to the surface to breathe their first breath.

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Meerkats

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For baby Meerkats it is important to learn how to forage for food.

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Meerkats

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Meerkats stay very close to their packs for their first few weeks.

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Tiger

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Tiger cubs spend their first two years of life with their mothers.

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Lions

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Life Story captures moments of intimacy between animals and their young.

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Hummingbird

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It takes hummingbirds only around 3 weeks to grow to the size and look of adult birds.

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Hummingbird

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Hummingbird mothers have a lot of work to do when their babies hatch.

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