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This is America.

A special journey through The great supercontinent of the earth.

The biggest diversity To life on earth.

The story that has not been told before from where we live.

In this episode:

The west coast.

Here determines The mighty Pacific ...

The rhythm and fate of life On land, on the coast and in the sea.

Travel from the highest trees ...

To the deepest waters.

And witness From a world first:

The special new behavior of The largest animal ever lived.

Who will be in a world which includes both land and the sea ...

Are the winners?

Here on the west coast.

This coastline extends 3200 km From the sunny Californian coasts ...

along high rising forests In Oregon ...

to the vast wilderness from British Columbia in Canada.

Here is a jumble of islands attached to the coastline.

The tides belong To the most extreme in America.

To see what the neighborhood water has delivered ...

a hunter comes from the forest that Nowhere else can be found on earth.

A sea wolf.

He is related to the gray wolf and Come back to this coast 10,000 years.

They have developed a special talent To find seafood.

A butterfish, a local delicacy.

This female is a lonely wolf.

Once wolves grow up often driven out of the pack of their parents.

Now she has her own territory to search.

But you soon go On other people's terrain.

And they have already picked up the scent.

A confrontation can be deadly.

Time to leave here.

The rising tide Will erase her tracks.

In the nick of time.

But that's how life is From a lonely wolf.

You can take a food together where you can.

A powerful scent on the wind Can change anything.

But to follow it she must enter hostile terrain.

The immense body of a humpback back was washed up with the tide.

It can be enough food for months.

But she is not the first to find him.

It is risky to be here.

If a pack now pops up Is there no way out.

A pack?

No. Another lonely wolf.

A man.

A new pack starts with The coupling of 2 lonely wolves.

Maybe they now claim part of it This special coast as their territory.

The separate relationship between sea wolves and The ocean makes them so special.

And it is the same complex Connection between land and sea ...

that so much of life determines on the west coast.

Like here, where the cold water From the Pacific ...

bumps with the warm air from the country ...

What an essential fog creates.

While he rolls in with nitrogen And phosphorus from the ocean.

This huge sequoia forest In California ...

gets almost half of its water And nutrients from the fog.

It helps to grow these trees Until the highest on earth.

The highest, about 120 m high, Perhaps there has been more than 2000 years here.

These foggy forests are Also the home base of a daredevil.

Willing to jump to venture in the deep.

Everything in the name of love.

Between the towering Sequoias from northern California ...

lives an animal that knows How to make an entrance.

A roaming salamander.

Only to find In these humid coastal forests.

He uses the wet fog to oxygen to record directly through the skin.

He doesn't need any lungs for that.

Looking for a partner He starts an extraordinary journey.

These salamanders bring their lives Especially in the treetops.

A female can 60 m sitting above him ...

In one of these colossal trees.

With its flexible body And long legs ...

Can he be this tribe with impressive climb speed. He will have to.

It is the human equivalent From five Empire State Buildings.

And the fibrous bark of the sequoia Makes it dangerous.

Even for this expert.

Success.

His goal is within reach.

A fern mat.

They grow on the branches From these gigantic trees.

These high homes have everything What a salamander needs.

They absorb the moisture from the forest And hold it.

Moreover, they have food.

And yes, his perfect match.

There is only one problem.

Another man is ahead of him.

There's nothing else to do Then to keep looking.

Another fern mat.

And another couple. This is not according to plan.

Not we.

Battle of three.

This search for love has come to an end.

But there are more sailing mats In other trees.

And he has a trick.

One that has never been filmed before.

By using its tail as a rudder And to spread all his paws ...

he can safely send it through the air and slide down 60 meters.

He may be back where he started ...

But base jumping is the fastest way To move.

For his search to resume a partner ...

he climbs in a different tree.

He's not for nothing called a roaming salamander.

Whether it comes through tides or fog ...

The influence of the Pacific Ocean Is never far away.

But this ocean is dangerous.

To save itself here An animal steel nerves required.

On the Central Coast of Californi� A heavy surf.

But these brave animals bid the head.

Sea otters.

To find food, they must enter the impact zone.

The mussels they want grow Rocks ravaged by waves.

The Otter is with its flippers A good swimmer.

But it's not easy.

They have to timize their dives in between The 6 meter high waves.

The reward is a stock Prote's top quality.

But for an ottermother Can the hunt be too risky here.

While she dives ...

she has to do her young Leave on the surface.

Floating on the strong current ...

The mother calls for her young.

And he recognizes her unique call.

She found him.

To feed her young ...

Must Mother Eat 11 kilos of seafood daily.

There may be enough food here.

But close by is a place With quieter water.

The port of Monterey.

There may not be that much food here.

But it seems like a safer place for one Mother to leave her young.

Or maybe not.

This port has its own dangers.

A mother can never really relax.

She needs a plan.

That is also an idea.

With the young safely anchored Can Mama be on the hunt for carefree.

The paintwork does not do this well.

But a hull Is a good mussel cracker.

Sea otter boys are six months Depending on their mother.

All the while the mother has to They almost feed non-stop.

Whether it's the branding ...

Or life in a port:

sea ​​otters have discovered how they Best from two worlds can get ...

On the west coast.

Monterey has been more than a hundred years A bustling port ...

that benefits optimally of the rich waters.

The secret of Monterey Lies just behind the harbor wall ...

Under the surface.

In some places More than 3 kilometers in the depth ...

Located Monterey Canyon.

Al huge are falling at its deepest point Walls 1.6 km further off.

They are not inferior in terms of scale For the Grand Canyon.

Here is A bizarre collection of beings ...

all golvenated for a life In darkness ...

And under the crushing pressure.

Like this heavenly view.

He looks up Because of his own transparent head

He searches for the vague silhouette From a possible prey above him.

This is a new area To explore ...

where we are looking for the strange And the wonderful.

Some animals almost defy here The imagination.

This will be a giant mantle fish Called, even though it is only 8 cm long.

Every day he separates two strangers Structures off his head.

They both consist of mucus.

A food filter system, Driven by his tail.

And a huge just that countless particles catches it floating through darkness.

And where the animals are special Is the canyon itself too.

He leads cold, nutrient -rich water to the surface, on a large scale.

He promotes life On coral reefs ...

and offers a home On a giant with nine brain ...

who has a secret ritual.

Few people ever are there witnessed.

Have on the reefs in front of the west coast The red rock scratching a problem.

They have to be deadly every day Game playing a hide and see ...

With a cunning and smart hunter who is not Only has a brain in her head ...

But also one in every arm.

You can do better Good hide ...

For a giant crack.

They are the largest in the world With an average of almost 5 meters.

Every crab she finds is smothered And intoxicated with toxic saliva.

Then she opened him With her razor -sharp mouth.

Her hunting success of the last 4 years Was a preparation at the moment.

She spreads a scent To put on a lover.

And someone is coming.

A huge man that she finds her irresistible.

He has A special mating ...

To carefully a package of sperm to convey.

A tender ritual that Never before has been filmed in the wild.

Their hug can take four hours.

But when it's over They separate.

They will never see each other again.

Her work has only just begun.

First she builds a barricade ...

Until there is no more entrance ...

And no output either.

Nine months pass.

She now monitors 100,000 eggs.

She has every day They carefully cleaned ...

and cared for it That they are in oxygen -rich water.

All this time She never left her hollow.

And in the meantime she is very weakened.

But finally the eggs are ready To get out.

With the size of a grain of rice ...

Every mini -bracket must now have its chances car in the wide Pacific.

But this survives No mother square.

By starving itself ...

she has sacrificed her own life To give her offspring the best chance.

Less than 1 percent grows up.

Those who are lucky Go into depth again ...

And grow into giants, just like Mama.

To succeed on the west coast Do you have to give everything you have.

But if the circumstances are good Can the reward be huge.

Located only 160 km from Los Angeles A chain of protected islands ...

that form a magnet For marine life.

The westernmost point is a beach With a typical Californian atmosphere ...

Even though there is no surfboard to be seen.

San Miguel houses the largest group sea ​​lions and seals on earth.

Every summer 120,000 animals make The soft, sheltered beach their home.

And though The beach is their refuge ...

Is the water the key To their survival.

It's time to go into the surf.

Why around it If you can over it?

This is a fairly relaxed group.

They may be rude on the land.

But when they reach the water ...

Is it in motion.

They get 40 km per hour at top speed.

They can easily get 160 km off the coast Go looking for food.

But at this time of the year the food comes to them ...

as billions of anchovies go to the coast.

But catch one Is much more difficult than it seems.

The anchovises are for them their safety a so -called bait.

This wall of fish makes it difficult To pick one out.

So the sea lions wait.

There is help along the way.

The Bonito is the big shock From an anchovy.

They close the baitball On the surface.

But they don't venture in the neighborhood to come from the sea lions.

And then the anchovises suddenly seem to Swarming the sea lions ...

For protection.

And that works out well the sea lions.

Hebbes.

Such large schools fish attract attention.

And that means attacking from all sides.

Used every predator Another strategy.

But one is more effective Then the other.

A group of humpbacks makes With one sip an end to the chaos.

In the summer on the west coast ...

can be a special one every day yield eating anger.

But for the sea lions it is now time To go to the coast.

Before they all tomorrow do again.

Announce further in the open ocean Dolphins the arrival of a giant.

The largest animal ever lived.

A blue whale.

And for the first time it was filmed ...

how they show behavior that has never been observed before.

With a length of about 30 meters Can only be a blue whale ...

make this boat look like toys.

Every summer they pull blue whales About 1400 km from Central America ...

To take advantage of the nutrient -rich sea ​​of ​​the west coast.

And this year they have a special someone taken.

This is the biggest baby in the world.

At her birth she is already so big Like a pick-up truck.

She is still dependent From breast milk ...

and wins no less than 113 kilos per day of weight.

Once were blue whales Almost extinct due to hunting.

Now they are protected.

Nowadays is the west coast One of their strongholds.

And that offers us An extraordinary opportunity.

It's a unique experience To see a single blue whale.

But there are no fewer than two here.

And during A very rare moment ...

Two are four.

What is happening now Has never been filmed before.

The group starts racing ...

And seems to play.

One even does a screw.

Why?

This is so unique that scientists Not sure.

But it seems that three males Want to make an impression on a female.

The largest dance competition in the world.

And then, as a final:

A blue whale From more than 100 tons ...

Strongs itself out of the water.

This is so special ...

that we have our knowledge about blue Vinfissen must rewrite.

Nature still has The power to surprise us.

Here, on the American West Coast.