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The family rub themselves through the fronds
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Oceans: Our Blue Planet

The family rub themselvesthrough the fronds

The family rub themselves
through the fronds

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The family rub themselves through the fronds.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
33
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:26
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.
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.
They pump out as much oxygen - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:07
They pump out as much oxygen
Within their tangled undergrowth, extraordinary discoveries await. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
Within their tangled undergrowth, extraordinary discoveries ...
In the shark-filled kelp forests of Southern Africa - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:09
In the shark-filled kelp forests of Southern Africa
Pyjama sharks are every octopus' worst nightmare. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
Pyjama sharks are every octopus' worst nightmare.
But the octopus has a trick up her sleeve. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
But the octopus has a trick up her sleeve.
In a behaviour previously unknown to science, - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:11
In a behaviour previously unknown to science,
Superior wits allow this octopus to stay alive. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
Superior wits allow this octopus to stay alive.
But just as we're getting to know these forests, - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
But just as we're getting to know these forests,
Off north America's pacific coast, great stands of kelp - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
Off north America's pacific coast, great stands of kelp
By armies of ravenous sea urchins. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
By armies of ravenous sea urchins.
They much through the roots with razor-sharp teeth. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
They much through the roots with razor-sharp teeth.
But some kelp forests here have unlikely guardians. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
But some kelp forests here have unlikely guardians.