Hang on a second, how did we get here from the wave-riding dolphins and the surface-to-air trevallies? Erm, by sea, that’s how. To colder waters, where orcas are whacking swarms of herrings with their tails, and sea otters are making themselves into furry rafts of cuteness for their babies, and a mummy walrus – goo goo g’ joob – is looking for an ice floe for her calf to rest up on … And, how about this for a twist, now she’s a he – a trans fish. Bottom feeder, naturally.Īnd what’s going on here, in the waters off Japan? A big male wrasse called a kobudai, an ugly brute with a big bump on its head, is ha-wrassing a lady wrasse. And what looks like an anus that is constantly being fed by its own 10 leafy legs? A sea cucumber, you say, Sir David? Well, I’ve never seen a cucumber that looks anything like that I’m calling it a cabbage-legged sea arsehole. Here’s a sea dragon, a creature surely designed by Dr Seuss. Otherwise, wow.Ī walrus mother and calf resting on an iceberg in Svalbard, Norway.
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The usual moan about the music: too much of it, too in-my-face (Hans Zimmer’s score goes into full ballistic Battle of Britain mode).
The best is the one that just misses, the tern somehow snatches life from the jaws of death, is nudged a little higher on to the breeze and just out of reach of the big fish, which very quickly goes from looking pretty awesome to frankly ridiculous as it bellyflops ignominiously back into the lagoon. That’s the one, isn’t it, the OMG did-you-see-that racer-snake moment. Like the very opposite of gannets plummeting into the sea to grab startled sardines maybe these trevallies have seen that footage on previous Attenborough docs, and it gave them the idea. Then it launches itself from the sea like a surface-to-air missile and grabs the poor bird mid-air. The trevally sees it flying above the surface from below, calculates airspeed, altitude and trajectory, probably does a “your tern, no my tern” gag with its mate. To a tern, a trevally is like a great white shark – just when they thought it was safe … They’re not even safe when they finally get a bit better at flying. They want bird for tea, young tern, snatched from the surface of the water from below.
A bit like Skodas in that respect.Īnd check these ones out, giant trevallies in the lagoon of an Indian Ocean atoll. Yeah, a fish using a tool! Remember when we used to make jokes about goldfish and their three-second memories? Well, no one’s making those jokes any more. On the Great Barrier Reef, a tuskfish smashes a clam that has clammed up against a particular coral, the same one it uses every day. They are not the only brainiacs of the sea.
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