![]() With no predator, this left the sea urchins free to consume all the kelp forests, and so what was once forest became a barren wasteland filled with sharp spikes. As always, this sort of thing has a knock-on effect. Sea otters were almost hunted to extinction for their fur. Their favourite food appears to be shellfish, so they prey on sea urchins. A mother sea otter has to eat “over 40% of her body weight every day” to produce enough milk for her pup. Sea otters are a very popular cute animal. We see a close-up of their mouths, which are full of pointy teeth! The sea urchins were compared in the programme to locusts, eating all the vegetation. ![]() The garibaldi fish has to hide at nightfall, as that’s when dangerous predators come out, leaving the sea urchins to have the algae to themselves for the night. There are lots and lots of sea urchins, so it’s rather like removing weeds from a garden, they keep coming up. Those spikes are apparently needle-sharp. He has to get rid of snails that come to eat his algae, chases off a stingray, and has to remove sea urchins, which look a bit like a ball covered in long spikes. Many human gardeners have had to remove snails, and this garibaldi fish does too. They referred to her as “a rock star”.Ī bright orange and yellow garibaldi fish is shown to be a bit like a gardener. One of their favourite individuals, so they were pleased she escaped her encounter with the shark. The Into The Blue “behind the scenes” segment at the end which showed how the crew filmed these natural events, showed that this octopus loved the camera! She became The shark can sense that food is there, but the disguise seems to confuse it, it keeps sniffing at the shells even after the octopus has escaped. She then disguises herself using lots of shells. This means it can’t breathe, so will have to let go if it wants to live! Very clever of the octopus. ![]() A pyjama shark gets the octopus, but she slides her tentacles into the shark’s gills. But once again, the hunter can become the hunted, as octopus are prey to pyjama sharks. An octopus camouflaged herself to hunt for crabs. In Southern Africa there are also forests of kelp. Sea pens, which look a bit like an old fashioned TV ariel covered in frost, come up from underground and soon a whole marine forest of kelp is there. Starfish wake up and spawn, and many creatures eat starfish eggs! A seacucumber, essentially a mouth with ten arms, stuffs itself with starfish eggs like a glutton. In the far North, it is spring after 3 months of winter.
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