BBC Wild Pacific: An Ocean of Extraordinary Discoveries (2009)

Index
Peter's DVD rating: 2.5 stars
551.4614 WIL
00:00Disc One: South Pacific 07:2060,000 Southern Elephant Seals arrive in August, MacQuarie Island 08:50 Royal Penguins also nest in large colony
13:30 Galapagos Sea Lions surf 14:20 Galapagos Penguin 17:00 Robber Crab largest terrestrial invertebrate can weigh 4 KG, hermit crab on steroids; feed on coconuts; females lay eggs in ocean Metoma Island, Vanuatu
21:20 Cyclones spread life to remote islands 22:30Hawaiian Islands 2000 miles from nearest continent: most isolated archipelago; less than 500 kinds of animal settled in 30 MY. 23:00Fruit flies have elaborate courtship ritual, evolved into 1,000 species
23:30 Hammerhead Fruit Fly males use heads as battering rams 23:45 Clavisetae Fruit Fly fans sex hormones from raised abdomen, extends tongue 24:30females are very fussy
25:00 Carnivorous Caterpillar 26:30another stick-like Meat-eating Moth 27:50 Pentecost man bungee jump: Pentecost Island
30:30Women use sea to make music, Banks Islands 38:35 Palolo Worm rear ends (reproductive segments) rise with moon to reproduce in November; they are the caviar of the South Pacific. Western Samoa 35:35 Tiger Shark appear in June to hunt Black Footed Albatross chicks. French Frigate Shoals
38:00 Anutan men use octopus tencles as bait to fish with strings. Anuta Island just 1/6 square mile in area 44:00Rapa Nui people carved moai and cut trees. Easter Island 47:30Anutans catch Brown Noddy Terns at night, but do not exterminate colony
49:50Monster Waves: Pohnpei, Caroline Islands 00:00Disc Two: South Pacific: Ocean of Volcanoes 02:00 Volcano explodes: Kavachi, Solomon Islands
04:00Hawaii 1,500 miles north of equator Kilauea 09:00 Ohia Lehua colonizes barren rock with long roots into lava tube 09:25 Scarlet Honeycreeper
11:30 Small-eyed Big-eyed Hunting Spider hunts in darkness of lava tube 12:00Rare cricket 12:30Translucent earwig and milky millimedes are troglodytes: cave specialists
14:00Galapagos Islands: Isabela 14:40 Galapagos Penguin adults cool off by taking a dip 17:00 Sally Lightfoot Crab tries to attack
17:10 Galapagos Penguin chick in lava tube 19:00 Megapode (Incubator Bird) lays eggs in volcanic sand; lets volcano incubate eggs: Solomon Islands 20:00 Wekiu Bug has antifreeze to survive around snow line, suck out dying insects Mauna Kea tallest mountain in the world measured from sea floor.
23:00 Razorfish blend into staghorn corals Society Islands, French Polynesia 24:20 Gray Reef Shark patrol in large numbers, hunt 26:20 Needlefish at night
26:50 Crown-of-Thorns Starfish preys on corals 27:45 Atlantic Triton's Trumpet preys on Crown-of-Thorns Starfish 28:48 Humphead Parrotfish also feeds on corals, release sand
30:00 lagoon forms when volcano flanks slip into sea: Bora Bora 30:50 Christmas Tree Worms 31:20 Mandarinfish fight, mate
33:00 Manta Ray 34:00 Snappers 34:15Fusilier Fish mop up remains
35:20Maupiti eroded to a hill 35:30 Mataiva a coral atoll: reefs surround lagoon 37:00 Rangiroa in French Polynesia is over 30 miles wide
37:50 Kingman Reef over 3000 miles from nearest continent, one of last pristine coral reefs left, 200 types of coral 38:55 Giant Clams spawn and can live over 50 years; dead shells build land 41:10 Fairy Tern island-hopped
41:20 Blue Lorikeet brought by Polynesians 41:50 Blacktip Reef Shark can swim in less a foot of water 42:55Palau - jewel of Micronesia: reefs forced up by earthquakes 35 MYA, creating rock islands; cliffs made of limestone over 70 marine lakes created by melring glaciers
44:55 Golden Jellyfish has photosynthetic algae, migrate daily to follow arc of the sun 48:00South Pacific Diaries Galapagos Penguins on the Edge 52:50Ecuador eradicated all 100,000 introduced goats; giant tortoises recovered
54:001982 El Nino caused penguin crash      
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07:20 Southern Elephant Seals
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08:50 Royal Penguins
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13:30 Galapagos Sea Lions surf
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14:20 Galapagos Penguin
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17:00 Robber Crab
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21:20 Cyclones
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23:30 Hammerhead Fruit Fly
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23:45 Clavisetae Fruit Fly
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25:00 Carnivorous Caterpillar
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26:30 Meat-eating Moth
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27:50 Pentecost man
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38:35 Palolo Worm
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35:35 Tiger Shark
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35:35 Black Footed Albatross
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38:00 Anutan
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44:00 moai
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02:00 Volcano
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04:00 Kilauea
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09:00 Ohia Lehua
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09:25 Scarlet Honeycreeper
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11:30 Small-eyed Big-eyed Hunting Spider
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12:00 cricket
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14:40 Galapagos Penguin adults
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17:00 Sally Lightfoot Crab
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17:10 Galapagos Penguin chick
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19:00 Megapode
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20:00 Wekiu Bug
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23:00 Razorfish
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24:20 Gray Reef Shark
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26:20 Needlefish
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26:50 Crown-of-Thorns Starfish
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27:45 Atlantic Triton's Trumpet
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28:48 Humphead Parrotfish
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30:00 lagoon
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30:50 Christmas Tree Worms
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31:20 Mandarinfish
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33:00 Manta Ray
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34:00 Snappers
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35:30 Mataiva
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37:00 Rangiroa
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37:50 Kingman Reef
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38:55 Giant Clams spawn
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41:10 Fairy Tern
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41:20 Blue Lorikeet
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41:50 Blacktip Reef Shark
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44:55 Golden Jellyfish
   
Index Oct 12, 2011 copyleft Peter Chen