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On Australia's great barrier reef
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Oceans: Our Blue Planet

On Australia's great barrier reef, one character is challengingour understanding of fish...

On Australia's great barrier reef, one character is challenging
our understanding of fish intelligence

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On Australia's great barrier reef,
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one character is challenging our understanding of fish intelligence.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
35
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:45
Uploaded
Jun 22, 2025
Genres
documentary, short
Production
OceanX Media,BBC Earth,BBC Studios Natural History Unit

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Movie Summary

Embark on a global odyssey to discover the largest and least explored habitat on earth. New ocean science and technology has allowed us to go further into the unknown than we ever thought possible.
He does something few would have believed a fish could do. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
He does something few would have believed a fish could do.
Every morning, he makes a journey out to the edge of the reef. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
Every morning, he makes a journey out to the edge of the ree...
But how to crack it open and get to the meat inside? - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
But how to crack it open and get to the meat inside?
He carries it all the way back to his special kitchen. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
He carries it all the way back to his special kitchen.
With a particular bump inside that he always uses. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
With a particular bump inside that he always uses.
It's not easy - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
It's not easy
So here's a fish that uses a tool. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
So here's a fish that uses a tool.
Some fish are much cleverer than we ever thought. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
Some fish are much cleverer than we ever thought.
Even ocean creatures that we already knew where smart - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:08
Even ocean creatures that we already knew where smart
This bottlenose dolphin mum - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:08
This bottlenose dolphin mum
She leads him to a particular bush-like coral - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
She leads him to a particular bush-like coral
The family rub themselves through the fronds. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
The family rub themselves through the fronds.
The calf is watching - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
The calf is watching
Gorgonian fronds are covered with a mucous - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:08
Gorgonian fronds are covered with a mucous
So, maybe, the dolphins are doing this to protect themselves from infection. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
So, maybe, the dolphins are doing this to protect themselves...
The calf may be too young to join in, - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:12
The calf may be too young to join in,
As we leave the tropics and head into cooler waters, - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:08
As we leave the tropics and head into cooler waters,
These are home to mysterious undersea forests. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
These are home to mysterious undersea forests.
Giant kelp, a seaweed, - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:12
Giant kelp, a seaweed,
Marine plants are the lungs of our planet. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
Marine plants are the lungs of our planet.