![]() The jelly-like Portuguese man-of-war can harness sail power to fish with its deadly tentacles. Jellyfish cross entire oceans feeding on whatever happens to tangle with their tentacles. Over half of all animals in the open ocean drift in currents. Here they remain until adulthood, adrift on the high seas in relative safety away from coastal predators. They leave the crowded waters of the coast and head to the open ocean, where they use floating debris like logs as life rafts. Only recently have we begun to solve the mystery of where baby turtles disappear to in their early years. Many smaller creatures find sanctuary in this great wilderness. With special pressure-proof cameras, we witness record-breaking feats of endurance as they hunt for squid a kilometre down into the abyss. They live for 80 years, and we are only now beginning to learn the extraordinary complexity of their language of clicks - thought to coordinate the whole family in everything from childcare to hunting. Sperm whales have the largest brains in the world. We witness feats of incredible endurance, moments of high drama and extraordinary acts of heart-wrenching self-sacrifice.Įvery animal in the big blue must find their own unique way to survive. This episode reveals what it takes to survive in this savage and forbidding world. Yet it's home to some of the biggest and most spectacular creatures on earth. It's a vast marine desert where there is little to eat and nowhere to hide. I read it in Sir David Attenborough's voice, for the sake of consistency (and just because I love his tone and cadence).The big blue is the world's greatest wilderness, far from shore and many kilometres deep. A must-have if you enjoyed the television series. I should think that ages 12+ would have no problem understanding the concepts presented here, and the younger ages would still be able to appreciate all of the fascinating pictures. Some of the information from the television series repeats here, but it is mostly broad concepts, and you don't feel like you're reading a movie novelization by and large, what repetition there is only serves to reinforce the information, and I wasn't annoyed by it. ![]() Or narwhals, with their meter-long tusks protruding from their heads like unicorns of the sea. Some of the underwater creatures are so bizarre that simply reading about them isn't enough take, for example, the angler fish species where the tiny males latch onto the larger females and fuse with them for life. Large, color photographs appear on every page and really help to stimulate the imagination. ![]() Although the book's layout and hefty proportions make it akin to a high school textbook, the pacing of the content is uniform and completely readable. Three members of the BBC's production crew for the television series, "The Blue Planet," form Voltron for this splendid companion book. Complete with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough and 400 full-color photographs, The Blue Planet is the first complete and comprehensive portrait of the whole ocean system. Along the way we are introduced to a whole host of wonderful creatures - from tiny copepods to majestic blue whales, and from the grotesque hairy anglerfish, to the amazing tripod fish that stands on its three delicate legs waiting to snap up unsuspecting prey. Accompanying the television series of the same name, The Blue Planet leads up on a voyage of exploration from the coasts, the very edges of the oceans, to the deep where weird and monstrous fish lurk in a world of perpetual darkness. Today, while we still have so much more of the ocean realm to uncover, we have discovered enough to know that beneath the waves lies a vast treasure-trove of rich and diverse life. ![]() In the entire solar system, Earth is the only planet that has water in liquid form in such quantities." Scientist have calculated that 70 percent of our planet is covered by water small wonder that the human being shave always been so fascinated by the oceans and what lies beneath. The reflection of the sun's light from the vast expanse of water covering its surface creates it gemlike blue color. It floats like a jewel in the inky black void. ![]()
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