DVD BBC - Life Disc 1: Fish (2010)

BBC - Life Disc 1: Fish (2010)

Fish are the most varied and diverse backboned creatures on the planet. They range from pregnant males to fish that fly, to those that have a top speed faster than a cheetah -- sailfish. In this episode, the brightly colored weedy sea dragon’s unusual mating and parenting methods are revealed, as is the peculiar convict fish, which shares its network of tunnels with thousands of offspring, who do the reclusive parents’ bidding. In Hawaii, gobies climb waterfalls – some more than 400 feet high – using a specialized disc that enables them to stick to vertical rocks. The sarcastic fringehead fiercely defends its territory from octopi and rival fringefish. And Japanese mudskippers spend many of their waking hours out of water – feeding, leaping and fighting for the attentions of the opposite sex.

Peter's DVD rating:
577 LIF QH 501.L544 2010

1:00	Atlantic Sailfish are fastest, attack sardine ball (Mexico)	4:00	Flying Fish mass spawning in floating palm frond, which sinks with dead fish entombed	8:50	Weedy Seadrogon courtship dance (South Australia)
11:00	Weedy Seadrogon male carries eggs	13:00	Convict fish thousands of juveniles help dig burrow, feed on plankton (Southwestern Pacific)	16:20	Sarcastic Fringeheads fight for territory of old shell (California coast)
19:30	Mudskipper dances for mate, digs tunnel by spitting (Japan)	25:10	Nopoli Rockclimbing Goby climbs waterfall (Hawaii)	29:00	Barbel fish cleans Hippopotamus (Kenya)
33:00	Big-eye Jack cleaned by wrasses, also by rubbing against	33:45	Silver-tipped Shark (California)	35:50	Ocellaris Clownfish pair lay eggs on rock close to Sea Anemone;; male cleans eggs, judged by female
39:10	Anchovy school evades Sea Lions	41:10	Hundreds of Ragged-tooth Sharks detect electrical signals; feed on Sardines trapped in shallow water (South Africa)	43:30	Tens of thousands of Cubera, Dog, and Mutton Snappers migrate and form mega-schools. Females lead in spawning at night? (Belize)
45:50	Whale Shark feeds on snapper eggs

1:00 Atlantic Sailfish	4:00 Flying Fish	8:50 Weedy Seadrogon courtship dance
11:00 Weedy Seadrogon male	13:00 Convict fish	16:20 Sarcastic Fringeheads
19:30 Mudskipper	25:10 Nopoli Rockclimbing Goby	29:00 Barbel
29:00 Hippopotamus	33:00 Big-eye Jack	33:45 Silver-tipped Shark
35:50 Ocellaris Clownfish	39:10 Anchovy school	41:10 Ragged-tooth Sharks
43:30 Snappers	45:50 Whale Shark


Index	Feb 17, 2011	Peter Chen