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 water.
- 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 rag 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 humans in the
-Coastal waters
-The bottlenose dolphin a special way of hunting shoals of mullet
-They create a circle around the fish and flick up the mud which -
-Make The water murky the mullet then get confused and jump up
-In the air making it easy for the dolphin 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!
-Sharks numbers have been dramatically reduced due to Overfishing.
-Overfishing has reduced the shark population by 90%
