‘Life in Color’ with David Attenborough The docu-series on Netflix shows us how the animal kingdom uses colour to conceal, confuse and caution In 2018, researchers from Newcastle University gave tiny 3D glasses to praying mantises to understand how they see the world. The mantis is the only insect known to have a stereo vision, and the team was trying to figure out how its vision is different from ours, given its extremely small brain. Taking this a step further, the new docuseries on Netflix, Life in Colour with David Attenborough, explores in detail how different animals perceive the world they live in and how colour plays an important role not just in mating, but also in raising its young, hiding from predators, and even maintaining territory.