Today we watched the Our Planet Documentary, narrated by David Attenborough, called Coastal Seas. Here are some interesting facts we learnt:
- 90 percent of marine creatures live coastal waters. This is because the sea floor is in reach of the sunlight.
- The documentary we watched was filmed in the Everglades National Park, in Florida USA.
- The lush meadows of the park support the marine life.
- The Giant Trevally and Sting Ray are extremely good hunters.
- Stingrays hunt for their prey that hide in the seagrass.
- There is a lot of food for the sea creatures, and for humans in the coastal waters.
- The bottlenose dolphin has a special way of hunting shoals of mullet. They create a circle around the fish and flick up the mud which makes the water murky - the mullet then get confused and jump up in the air, making it easy for the dolphins to catch the mullet.
- Coral reefs make up less than 1 % of all the marine species that live in the ocean.
- Coral reefs are missing an important member of the community-Sharks!
- Shark numbers have been dramatically reduced due to overfishing.
- Overfishing has reduced the shark population
Hi Julia, most of the stuff you learnt on the documentary I didn't know! you did repeat the second to last line but anyways you have learn't a huge amount of stuff. have you seen other our planet episodes before?
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