The 93-yr-old presenter will have a look at how shade is used within the animal world to talk in addition to means of cooperation.
The series marks the primary time the BBC has collaborated with Netflix on a herbal records programme.
Sir David previously worked with the streaming massive on the extremely a success Our Planet series closing yr.
Netflix has additionally ordered a herbal records collection primarily based at the oceans, but no similarly information are presently available.
Filming has already started out on Life in Colour in Australia, with the shoot touring Adelaide, Sydney and Lizard Island.
Patrick Holland, controller of BBC Two, stated in a declaration: "I am searching forward to seeing the mixture of revolutionary images and wealthy analysis to explore the position coloration plays in animals’ lives."
Meanwhile Stephen Dunleavy, exec manufacturer for UK-primarily based Humble Bee Films, which is sharing production duties with SeaLight Pictures in Australia introduced: “The use of colour is an underneath-explored thing of animal behaviour, and we're searching forward to taking newly designed cameras into the sector to assist reveal the whole tale.
"It may be a stunning and revelatory series.”
Screen Australia is backing the mission and Bernadine Lim, the business enterprise's head of documentaries, stated the venture become a massive deal for local producer SeaLight, and could have a big impact regionally.
She said: “The series will depart an enduring legacy for our national identification thru innovation and clinical insights because it affords a new way of seeing and know-how Australia’s unique fauna."
The series will hit displays in 2021, and could be broadcast on the BBC within the UK, Nine Network in Australia and Netflix for all over territories.
Yesterday, the enduring presenter had a polar studies vessel named after him.