06- Coral Seas

Original air date: 17 October 2001

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Selected material

A bee-like social system found among shrimps (18’20)

Shrimps inside a tunnel of a sponge

Being as tiny as a grain of rice the shrimps have turned out to have a highly sophisticated social system similar to bees

Cuttlefish mating (37′)

The male (the small one on the right) is trying to seduce the female, both using tentacles to ‘walk’ on the sea bottom. Cuttlefish are obviously closely related to the Octopus.

More episodes

01 - The blue planet
02- The Deep
03- Open Ocean
04- Frozen Seas
05- Seasonal Seas
07- Tidal Seas
08- Coasts
09- Deep Trouble
10- Making Waves
Series in retrospect