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Ocean Giants: Whales (pix + Video Clips)
saw this documentary this week, havent seen it complete to post so here are some clips for now. video selection on youtube is a bit shit  The majority of blue whales migrate to colder waters to feed, but a BBC film crew have filmed an exceptional group that live off the coast of Sri Lanka year round. The whales are thought to take advantage of a cold water upswelling in the area that delivers large numbers of krill, their preferred food.  Specialist cameramen Doug Allan and Didier Noirot got up close and personal with the world's underwater record breakers for the BBC One series Ocean Giants. Here Didier filmed the aggressive mating displays of male humpback whales off the coast of Hawaii.  Bowhead whales are the fattest animals in the world. Living in arctic waters, the whales have up to 50 tonnes of body fat to keep them warm. The whales are also thought to be the longest-lived mammals on earth as their low body temperature helps them to live for up to 200 years.  Grey whales undertake the longest annual migration of any known mammal, travelling from warm breeding grounds at the equator to their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic. Researchers have suggested that these epic journeys could also be driven by the threat of predation from killer whales.  Male southern right whales have the largest sexual organs of any animal. Their testicles can weigh up to one tonne and their penises can measure over 2.5m. Scientists have linked these proportions to increased sperm competition in the species in which mating is described as an "orgy".  The blue whale is the largest animal in the world, weighing up to 200 tonnes and measuring 30m in length. There could be as few as 10,000 of the animals left following a huge decline in their numbers over the last century due to whaling. Ocean Giants begins on BBC One at 2100 BST on Sunday, 14 August. <iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G245UnzFxos" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/x7YBDNfqejE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> |
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08-21-2011, 05:43 AM
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Re: Ocean Giants: Whales (pix + Video Clips)
some pictures form the show added you can watch it here but cant see an embed option : http://www.vureel.com/video/31195/Oc...01-Giant-Lives http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...s_Giant_Lives/ |
