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

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

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:
577 LIF QH 501.L544 2010

2:40	0.5 mile down, water reaches 450&	3:15	Pompeii Worm	3:25	2-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	16:00	Quarter 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.
25:15	Small Australian Giant Cuttlefish sneaker male impersonates female	27:45	4-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

3:15 Pompeii Worm	3:25 Giant Tube Worms	4:10 Krill
4:55 Humboldt Squid	9:00 Marine life under ice	9:00 Red Starfish
9:00 Sea Urchin	9:00 Nemertine Worm	12:00 Aurelia
14:25 Fried Egg Jellyfish	16:00 Common Spider Crabs	17:50 Common Spider Crabs mating
17:50 Smooth Stingray	20:35 Australian Giant Cuttlefish mate	23:30 Australian Giant Cuttlefish males fight.
25:15 Australian Giant Cuttlefish sneaker male	27:45 North Pacific Giant Octopus	31:00 Sunflower Starfish
33:00 King Crab	33:50 Corals	39:30 Corals fight at night
40:40 Corals spawn after November full moon	43:00 Christmas Tree Worms	43:10 Barnacles
43:30 Porcelain Crab	43:35 Boxer Crab	43:45 Orangutan Crab
44:30 Sea Cucumber	44:40 Nudibranch	44:55 Emperor Shrimp
45:50 Cleaner Shrimp


Index	Feb 20, 2011	Peter Chen