Today we watched the Our Planet Documentary,narrated by David Attenborough,called Coastal Seas. Here are some interesting facts we learnt:
-90percent of marine creatures live in coastal waters.This is because the seafloor 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 ray are extremely good hunters.
-Stingrays hunt for their prey that hind in the seagrass.
-There is a lot of food for the sea creatures,and for humans in the coastal waters.
-bottlenose dolphins has 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 dolphins 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!
-Shark numbers have been dramatically reduced due to overfishing
-Overfishing has reduced the shark population by 90%