BBC - Life Disc 4: Creatures of the Deep (2010)

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Deep-sea marine invertebrates are extraordinarily diverse. In this episode, carnivorous Humboldt squid change color like flashing neon signs and attack a school of fish in a coordinated hunting maneuver, while vast numbers of giant spider crabs emerge from the deep and congregate in the shallows to molt. Time lapse cameras capture starfish, sea urchins and monster worms devouring a seal carcass in an astonishing frenzy of predation. The female Pacific giant octopus scours the ocean floor for a safe place to hide and lay her eggs. For the next six months she does not leave her den, but guards her eggs, keeping them oxygenated, free from disease and safe from predators. Gradually she starves, and in her last act of devotion blows water over her eggs to help them hatch. Then, she dies.
Peter's DVD rating: 4.5 stars
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QH 501.L544 2010
2:400.5 mile down, water reaches 450& 3:15 Pompeii Worm 3:252-meter long Giant Tube Worms provide mucous to bacteria?
4:10 Krill swarm 60,000/cubic meter rise to feed (Sea of Cortez, Mexico) 4:55 Humboldt Squid (Red Devil) hunt fish by herding them against rocks (west coast, North America). 9:00 Marine life under ice includes Red Starfish , Sea Urchin , and Nemertine Worm ; feeding on dead seal pup (McMurdo Sound, Mount Erebus, Antarctica)
12:00 Aurelia jellyfish swarm of 100,000 feeds on plankton bloom, hunted by 14:25 Fried Egg Jellyfish 16:00Quarter million Common Spider Crabs migrate to shallow water to molt
17:50 Common Spider Crabs mating , hunted by Smooth Stingray (south Australia) 20:35 Australian Giant Cuttlefish mate by passing packets of sperm. 23:30 Australian Giant Cuttlefish males fight.
25:15Small Australian Giant Cuttlefish sneaker male impersonates female 27:454-meter long North Pacific Giant Octopus seeks nursery, caring for 100,000 eggs for 6 months, dies as eggs hatch (British Columbia) 31:00 Sunflower Starfish eats dead octopus by sensing with tube feet, loses and regrows arm to
33:00 King Crab 33:50 Corals build on a WW II shipwreck. 39:30 Corals fight at night
40:40 Corals spawn after November full moon Coral polyps form symbiotic relationship with algae? 43:00 Christmas Tree Worms 43:10 Barnacles
43:30 Porcelain Crab 43:35 Boxer Crab uses sea anemone on each fist for defense and to gather passing plankton 43:45 Orangutan Crab body is covered with sticky hairs
44:30 Sea Cucumber 44:40 Nudibranch 44:55 Emperor Shrimp rides on a Nudibranch
45:50 Cleaner Shrimp      
Alvinella_pompejana.jpg
3:15 Pompeii Worm
Riftia_pachyptila.jpg
3:25 Giant Tube Worms
Euphausiacea.jpg
4:10 Krill
Dosidicus_gigas.jpg
4:55 Humboldt Squid
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9:00 Marine life under ice
Fromia_milleporella.jpg
9:00 Red Starfish
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9:00 Sea Urchin
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9:00 Nemertine Worm
Aurelia.jpg
12:00 Aurelia
Phacellophora_camtschatica.jpg
14:25 Fried Egg Jellyfish
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16:00 Common Spider Crabs
Libiniaemarginata-mate.jpg
17:50 Common Spider Crabs mating
Dasyatis_brevicaudata.jpg
17:50 Smooth Stingray
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20:35 Australian Giant Cuttlefish mate
Sepia_apama-fight.jpg
23:30 Australian Giant Cuttlefish males fight.
Sepia_apama-sneaker.jpg
25:15 Australian Giant Cuttlefish sneaker male
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27:45 North Pacific Giant Octopus
Pycnopodia_helianthoides.jpg
31:00 Sunflower Starfish
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33:00 King Crab
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33:50 Corals
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39:30 Corals fight at night
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40:40 Corals spawn after November full moon
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43:00 Christmas Tree Worms
Cirripedia.jpg
43:10 Barnacles
Porcellanidae.jpg
43:30 Porcelain Crab
Lybia.jpg
43:35 Boxer Crab
Achaeus_japonicus.jpg
43:45 Orangutan Crab
Holothuroidea.jpg
44:30 Sea Cucumber
Nudibranchia.jpg
44:40 Nudibranch
Periclimenes_imperator.jpg
44:55 Emperor Shrimp
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45:50 Cleaner Shrimp
   
Index Feb 20, 2011 copyleft Peter Chen