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The waters off the eastern cape of South Africa are teeming with life. Scientists study the behavior of fish in these waters to get a better understanding of their place in the food web. Massive schools of sardines travel over a thousand kilometers from Durban, South Africa, up the coast to Mozambique followed by hungry predators such as gannets, dolphins, and sharks. Marine biologists look for clues as to why the sardines make this famed “Sardine...
2) Marine Life
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Today it is generally accepted that life first appeared in seas. Learn about the different forms of sea life, including mammals, arthropods, reptiles, and fish. This program will also explore banks of fish, different sea zones, pelagic and benthonic zones, plankton and zooplankton, and life in benthonic regions.
3) Crabs
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Crabs have populated every ocean in the world, but several million years ago extended their territory by stepping onto land. Now some crabs can be found living only in the water caught between the leaves of plants, or in places where rain doesn't fall for months.
6) Sunfish
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Even though they live mostly in deep dark ocean waters, sunfish come to the surface in search of 'personal hygienist' to clean its body of unwanted parasites.
8) Red Sea Rays
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Between Africa and Arabia lays the clear-watered red sea, an aquatic world gushing with life. Barracuda can be seen in giant spiraling columns and manta rays traveling in long caravans, sifting through the water for plankton.
9) Snails
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Evolved from their marine ancestors, snails find the most suitable conditions to be the wet darkness of a rainy night, retreating back into their shells when the sun rises above the horizon.
10) Angler Fish
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Down in the dark waters of the deep sea, the female angler fish uses its bioluminescent lure to attract prey as well as to reveal her presence to prospective mates.
11) Congo Fishes
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In the Congo basin, a tropical rainforest, it rains nearly 10 meters a year. Killifish fish take advantage of the heavy rains by breeding in the puddles left by the footprints of elephants. By breeding here, then flopping into the nearest stream, the young kiwi fish avoid predators.
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Fish can not only bite, they can sting as well. Some, like the stingray, are obvious stingers, but even two species of shark have specially adapted venomous spines located near the dorsal fins. Catfish, toadfish, surgeonfish, scorpion fish and stargazers are all venomous but the most venomous fish of all is the stonefish. A sting from on spine can cause pain, delirium and death. The Indian stonefish has the largest venom gland of all fish, attached...
13) Sardines
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The massive number of sardines on their migration North attracts all kinds of hungry predators from the deep water and the sky.
14) Winning Smile, A
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What has kept sharks alive and thriving for so long? A look at the adaptive and predatory traits of these magnificent creatures.
15) The Blue Planet
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The oceans are an essential part of our lives. Their influence dominates the world's weather systems. They also support an enormous range of life, from the largest whales to the smallest plankton; whilst still remaining largely unexplored and mysterious. Discover the sheer scale, power and complexity of the Blue Planet.
16) Open Ocean
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The Open Ocean covers more than 360 million square kilometers. Much of this huge expanse of seawater is marine desert with virtually no sign of life. Yet somehow life survives out here. We follow the extraordinary path of the yellowfin tuna from its beginnings as a tiny egg until it becomes a 400 pound, voracious predatory giant.
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Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious sea witch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend Flounder, and her reluctant chaperon Sebastian...
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The team settles in for a month on the Great Barrier Reef, the largest reef in the world. One scientist is studying sharks and, in a flashback we visit French Polynesia where sharks abound and the team films their natural feeding behaviors for the first time ever. Back on the GBR, the scientists explore the northern reef, which until recently was the healthiest part. The program concludes with new footage of the 2016 bleaching and severe die-off among...
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Steve Backshall takes us to a place few have ever visited - the deep sea. 99 per cent of the space on Earth inhabited by life is under the ocean and almost 90 per cent of this is deeper than a kilometer, a place of perpetual darkness and crushing pressure. Far from being lifeless, the vast inner space of our planet contains an extraordinary array of beautiful and bizarre creatures, from 40m-long jellyfish to grotesque angler fish and vampire squid....
20) Galapagos
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Situated at the confluence of major currents, the Galapagos Islands are not tropical – in fact they are cold. Reefs were only discovered here in 1975. With the help of a local guide, the team battles rough seas and cold water. They discover some flourishing reefs at Darwin Island and, further south, a natural laboratory to test the future of what reefs might expect in just a few decades.