6- Coasts

Original air date: 3 December 2017

Start time	Theme, Contents	More detailed description (Filming location)
0’25-3′	Introduction	Return to place of hatching
0’25	An olive ridley turtle	Return to place of hatching
2’50	Introductory words	Only the animals that can make the most of life of life and sea can make it here on the coasts (Costa Rica)
3′-12’15	Teamwork
3’50	Sea lions	Need to pile on the pounds, only the largest can mate with the females — (Galapagos)
5’20	Gone fishing	Hunting yellow finned tuna – underwater filming
6′	Sea lions	Trap tuna in a dead end
7′	Team work	One member blocks their escape, the rest pick them off, one by one
9’20	Sea lion	Their technique of picking up the tuna shows foresight, planning and co-operation rarely seen – each fish gives 5 times the protein of normal prey
11’10-12’15	The tides	Speed up
12’15-22’20	Rock pool	When the tide recedes it leaves behind a temporary oasis – a rock pool – drama that lasts until next high tide …
12’15-16’35	Rock pool drama	Speed up drama (13′) – snails, sea anemones, starfishes
14’30	Starfish	Hunting limpets, but limpets are slippery and some of them can slide to safety (15’20)
15’40	Food bites !	Food that bites back (15’40) – actually some of them contain scaleworm underneath the limpet’s scale that bites the starfish
16′	Clingfish	The limpets have no defence against the clingfish that has teeth that can penetrate underneath the scale
17′-22’20	Crabs & the moray eel	The crabs (being more at home in sea than on land) seem to avoid the sea, the moray eel is reason enough !!! — (The Atlantic coast of Brazil)
17′	Sally Lightfoot crab	Waiting for tide to recede to get to their feeding grounds of seaweed rocks – so they can avoid the moray eel (the chain moray)
21′	Octopus	Adding to the risk another crab killer, an octopus joins in
22’20-25’20	The elements
24’10	Ocean waves	Another important factor influencing the coast — (Portugal)
24’10	Wave power	Shaping the rocks on the coastline — (Northern Spain)
25’20-25’20-33′	Cliffs
25’20	Birds	By nesting in the cliffs they are only accessible by air — (The Arctic)
25’58-32’50	Puffins	Fishing trips where they are joined by guillemots
28’56-31’40	Arctic skuas	Attacked by skuas on their way back
32’30	Environmental message	Harder to get enough fish due to overfishing
33′-36’50	Abandoning sea for dry land
33’35-36’40	Blennies: Fish nesting in the cliffs	Gives up life in sea for life on land, breathing through skin — (The Pacific)
34’25	Changes colour	Catches female’s attention
34’40	Poor swimmers	Afraid of the waves
36′	Fertilises eggs in in his nest	Seductive dance used to seduce his mate
36’50-45’30	Reversal: From land to sea
36’50	Penguins & elephant seals	Move in the opposite direction, abandon flying for swimming — (South Georgia)
39′-43’30	Penguins	Sneaking past sleeping giants
42’10-43’20	Shed all feathers	Catastrophic moult
45’30-47’25	Harmful life near cities	2/3 of our major cities are on our coasts
45’30-47’15	Sharks near cities	Challenges from human world – Spinners & blacktips
47’25	Out of the blue	Sea lions in Galapagos

Selected material

Fish avoiding water (blennies)

The fish seems to actually avoid the waves

Here is a brilliant piece about them