Name: Shallow Seas
Released: 2017-03-10
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough

1) salp

Salps appear in the plankton soup.
2) jawfish

The jawfish hides underground.
3) goatfish

Shoals of yellow goatfish and trivali are seeking similar prey
4) socotra

But every year, a hundred thousand socotra cormorants gather here to breed.
5) holdfast

The urchin plague strikes at the kelp's holdfast their crucial attachments to the rock.
6) dugong

Dugongs are the largest herbivores in the sea.
7) cranny

so they seek prey that is hiding in the nooks and crannies of the coral.
8) blubber

but these have now acquired an unexpected taste for blubber rich penguins.
9) herbivore

Dugongs are the largest herbivore in the sea.
10) shallows

These shallows around the equator are excellent nurseries.
11) morsel

and the polyps feed by snaring passing morsel with their tentacles.
12) pulsation

Perhaps this extraordinary pulsation of the clam's fleshy mantle
13) bottlenose

but bottlenose dolphins are inquisitive, energetic,1 and very intelligent
14) polyp

Reefs are the work of polyp
15) krill

Fur seals normally live on krill
16) shearwater

Five million shearwater have flown almost ten thousand miles from Australia to get here.
17) seabird

to find a crowded bustling colony of seabird
18) cormorant

But every year, a hundred thousand socotra cormorant gather here to breed.

1) liquefy

The predator extrudes it's stomach, and wraps it around it's victims liquefy their soft parts.
2) extrude

The predator extrude it's stomach, and wraps it around it's victims liquefying their soft parts.
3) paralyze

Their bite is highly venomous and paralyze their victims.
4) excavate

which they excavate with their mobile lips.
5) fertilize

These upwellings fertilize forests of giant kelp, that thrive in the summer sunshine.
6) proliferate

where life proliferate so abundantly on our planet.
7) bathe

in sandy shallows bathe by the warmer Agulhas Current.
8) lash

In winter, the temperate seas are lash by violent storms.
9) flourish

They too flourish in this seasonal soup
10) invade

Millions of invertebrates invade the seabed.
11) thrive

Corals thrive in these waters with the help of microscopic plants, algae
12) migrate

Huge shoals migrate from their overwintering grounds in the depths
13) absorb

By midsummer, the surface nutrients have all been absorb.
14) bury

that are buried in the sand.
15) scare

The big fish scare the prey into cracks and there the snakes can catch them
16) whip

Sand whip up by Shamals offshore winds
17) sweep

The Benguela Current sweep along the western coastline of Southern Africa
18) fringe

Our planet's continents are fringe by shallow seas.

1) tantalizingly

The fish are tantalizingly close
2) spectacularly

Add sunshine and the mix is spectacularly productive.
3) paradoxically

So, paradoxically, it's the roasted sands of Arabia that prevent the gulf
4) abundantly

where life proliferates so abundantly on our planet.
5) aptly

The aptly named ragged tooth shark.
6) vigorously

Vigorously pumping their tails, they work up some speed
7) evenly

Food is not evenly distributed in the tropical shallow seas
8) seemingly

and seemingly delight in doing so.
9) nonetheless

he is nonetheless vulnerable.
10) alongside

Younger dolphins lie alongside, watching
11) nowhere

There's nowhere to hide.
12) individually

Individually the algae are tiny
13) rarely

Rarely more than two hundred meters deep they lie on the continental shelves
14) hardly

This hardly seems a good place to rear young
15) virtually

these crystal clear waters are virtually lifeless.
16) rapidly

Fish and krill stocks are declining so rapidly
17) underground

The jawfish hides underground.
18) relatively

The Californian upwellings are seasonal and relatively small

1) chok

These are chok squid, and they lay their egg capsules
2) flightless

Being flightless, the returning penguins must cross the open beach on foot.
3) pectoral

A gurnard. It's huge pectoral fins disguise it's shape
4) ravenous

for only these waters contain sufficient food necessary to fuel such a ravenous predator.
5) bewildering

They're eaten by an array of bewildering creatures.
6) fearsome

The most fearsome predator here is a giant.
7) venomous

Their bite is highly venomous and paralyzes their victims.
8) inquisitive

but bottlenose dolphins are inquisitive, energetic,1 and very intelligent
9) feisty

but they have razor sharp bills and a feisty character.
10) incessant

where incessant gale force winds draw nutrients up from the depths
11) dusky

Dusky dolphin, often in pods two hundred strong
12) pygmy

They're pygmy sea horses, the world's smallest, less than two centimeters high.
13) preoccupied

and males still preoccupied with repelling rivals, the squid drop their guard.
14) ferocious

With the retreating ice, rough weather and ferocious currents stir up these shallow seas.
15) algal

The algal towers are as high as a three story house
16) fleshy

Perhaps this extraordinary pulsation of the clam's fleshy mantle
17) watery

Coral reefs are oases in a watery desert.
18) bustling

to find a crowded bustling colony of seabirds

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