David Attenborough documentary coastal seas

Today we watched the our planet documentary, narrated by David Attenborough, called coastal seas. Here are some interesting facts we learnt:





90 percent of marine creatures live in coastal waters. This is because the sea floor is in reach of 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 hide in seagrass


There is a lot of food for the sea creatures, and for humans in the coastals waters


The bottlenose dolphin has a special way of hunting shoals of mullet they create a circle around the fish and flick up the mud witch makes the water muky - 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 then 1% of all the marine species that live in the ocean


Coral 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%.