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Friday 26 July 2019

David Attenborough Documentary Coastal seas

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 in coastal waters.This is because the seafloor is in reach of sunlight.
  • The documentary we watched was filmed in the Everglades National Park,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 the 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 90%







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