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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.