- 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%
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:
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