Today we watched the Our Planet Documentary, narrated by David Attenborough, called Costal seas. Here are some interesting facts we
Learnt:
-90 Percent of marine Creatures live in costals 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 hide in the seagrass
- There is a lot of food for the sea creatures, and for humans in the costal 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 have LESS than 1% of all the marine species that live in the ocean .
- Coral reefs are missing an important member of the comunity- Sharks!
- Shark numbers have been dramatically reduced due to overfishing.
- Overfishing has reduced the shark population by 90% .
