The Living Planet
The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, looking at the ways in which living organisms, including humans,
adapt to their surroundings. The series consists of twelve episodes which explain how the Earth works and how living organisms survive and thrive in different environments.
Episode 11 - The Open Ocean. This episode concentrates on the marine environment. Attenborough goes underwater himself to observe
the ocean's life forms and comment on them at first hand. He states that those that live on the sea bed
are even more varied than land inhabitants. Much sea life is microscopic, and such creatures make up part
of the marine plankton. Some animals are filter feeders and examples include the manta ray, the basking
shark and the largest, the whale shark. (from wikipedia.org)
| Episode 11 - The Open Ocean |
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