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The coast.
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Nature's most demanding
hunting ground.
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So hazardous that few predators
stay here all year.
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This frontier between sea and land
is continuously changing.
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Opportunities never last long.
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To hunt at the coast,
you have to be in the right place
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at just the right time.
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On the east coast of America, in the
tidal creeks of South Carolina,
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a team of hunters is about to leave
the safety of their natural habitat.
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This group of bottlenose dolphins
has perfected
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a unique hunting strategy.
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It relies on teamwork,
intelligence and timing.
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But beaching themselves like this is
also difficult and dangerous.
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Hunting is only possible for
three hours around low tide,
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when the mud banks are exposed.
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Razor-sharp oysters cover
much of the shore.
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Beaching here could be lethal.
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The hunters need to find
a stretch of shoreline
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with just the right slope.
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Too level
and the dolphins risk stranding.
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Too steep and they can't
force their prey from the water.
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Working as a team,
the dolphins surround the fish,
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driving them towards the shore.
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Attacking in perfect synchrony,
the dolphins create a bow wave.
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It carries their prey onto
the muddy banks.
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Other fish-eaters
profit from their daring.
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Herons and gulls follow every hunt.
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To get to the fish first,
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the dolphins drive themselves
high up the bank.
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But if they go too far,
they risk stranding.
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To prevent fish
escaping between them,
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the dolphins all beach
themselves on the same side.
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Always the right.
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But this has a cost -
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each time they grab a fish,
they also take in a mouthful of mud.
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The grit gradually wears down their
teeth...
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..but on one side only.
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In time, these teeth get so worn
down that older dolphins can no
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longer hunt like this and must find
other ways to catch fish.
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Within a few hours, the banks
will vanish once again
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beneath the muddy water.
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The ebb and flow of the tide
dominates the lives of all
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who try to hunt on the coast.
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Northern Australia has the highest
tides in the tropics,
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which expose vast areas of shoreline.
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And here lives a truly
extraordinary species of octopus.
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Octopuses are marine animals -
they live and breathe underwater.
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At low tide, most octopuses would be
imprisoned in their rocky pools.
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But this is no ordinary octopus.
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It's the only one specially
adapted to walk on land.
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It pulls itself along,
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using the hundreds of tiny suckers
that line its arms.
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Hunting for crabs,
it walks from pool to pool.
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Apart from a rather startled fish...
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..this one is empty.
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So the octopus moves on.
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A rock pool may
seem like a safe refuge.
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But the octopus' suckers
enable it to move
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just as stealthily in water
as out of it.
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Nowhere is safe
when this octopus is around.
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Everything living here must
march to the rhythm of the coast.
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Regiments of soldier crabs,
several thousand strong,
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march and counter-march across these
Australian beaches.
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They sift out microscopic food.
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But they can only feed for a few
hours while the sand remains damp.
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And it's not just the tide
they're racing against.
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Hunting birds follow in their wake.
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But the army is undeterred.
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They swarm in such huge numbers
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that their predators make little
impact upon them.
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But safety in numbers isn't the only
defence on these flats.
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Another crab here has
a different strategy.
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The sand bubbler crab -
no bigger than a pea.
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They also sift out tiny food
particles
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and then leave
the sand as pellets in their wake.
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Sand bubblers are wary and never
venture far from their burrows.
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The crabs position their sand
balls very carefully
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to ensure there is a clear
path back to safety.
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As soon as the coast is clear,
they're off again,
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racing to feed
before the sand dries out.
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The industry of thousands
transforms the whole beach...
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..until the tide returns once more.
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Few hunters make
the coast their permanent home -
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most only visit to take advantage
of short-lived opportunities.
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On the coast of Thailand,
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a most unlikely visitor
waits for the tide to ebb.
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Long-tailed macaques feed mostly
on fruit and leaves in the forest.
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But these have learnt to supplement
their vegetarian diet with seafood.
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As the tide begins to fall,
the macaques make their way
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down to the shore - a beach-side
restaurant is about to open.
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There's plenty of food here,
if you know how to get at it.
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The macaques have learnt to use
heavy rocks as tools
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to break open the sea snails.
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It takes a great deal of skill to
master this technique,
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but not everyone has got
the hang of it.
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You have to be ingenious to make
a living at the coast.
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As the tide falls still further,
it reveals the next course.
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To feed on this dish,
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they need a stone tool with a very
particular shape.
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They're after rock oysters.
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To crack the shells open,
they must strike the oyster
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in just the right place
with their chosen tool.
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The lowest tide reveals a course
that is particularly delicious...
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..but also very hard to collect.
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Crabs have good eyesight
and can move fast.
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So catching them
requires a special trick.
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Before pouncing, the macaques wait
for a wave to obscure their attack.
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Macaques learn their skills
by watching their parents.
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But some techniques do take
time to perfect.
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And time and tide waits
for no macaque.
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The returning water closes the beach
restaurant for another day.
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It's not just tides that rule
the lives
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of those that live on the coast.
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The shores of Chile are battered
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by some of the wildest
and coldest seas.
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This coastline is home to
a remarkable little hunter...
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..the South American marine otter.
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The world's smallest sea mammal.
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This rare and elusive otter is half
the size of its European cousin.
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They live along the Pacific
coast of South America,
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right down to Cape Horn at the very
tip of the continent.
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Surprisingly, the pounding breakers
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aren't a problem for
the little otters...
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..but the cold water is.
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A continuous frigid current sweeps
up from Antarctica.
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A small body loses heat faster than
a large one, and so these tiny
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otters can only hunt in the chilly
water for 20 minutes at a time.
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But their small size enables them
to reach the fish and crabs
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that hide amongst the boulders.
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To stay warm, marine otters have to
eat a quarter of their body weight
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in seafood every single day.
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And things are particularly
hard for this female
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because her cubs aren't yet old
enough to hunt for themselves.
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Before each fishing trip
she rolls in seaweed,
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trapping air in her fur,
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so insulating herself
from the chill of the seas.
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The cold isn't her only challenge.
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Being so small, these otters
can only hold their breath
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for about a minute, making every
dive a race against time.
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This otter lives on a
calorific knife-edge,
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often only getting enough from
one hunting trip to fuel the next.
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Success - a meal for the youngsters.
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These otters spend their entire
lives at the coast,
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so they must accept
its day-to-day challenges.
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But coasts pulse to much more than
just the daily rhythms.
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On the shores of Alaska,
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a spectacular annual event
is about to take place.
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Each July, predators gather
for the biggest feast of the year...
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but it will only last a few weeks.
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Brown bears
come down from the hills.
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Wolves appear out of the woods.
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And seals assemble in the ocean.
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The coast is the only place
where hunters from the sea
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meet those from land and air.
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Bears have a sense of smell
2,000 times better than ours
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and can even detect prey out at sea.
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They know the salmon are coming.
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BARKING
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They also know the best
fishing spots...
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..and are prepared to fight for them.
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GROWLING
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GROWLING
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After years feeding out
in the Pacific,
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the salmon are returning to spawn.
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But before they head upriver,
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they must pause and modify their
bodies to function in fresh water.
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The young and overeager try to
catch the salmon
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while they're still in the surf.
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Those with experience
are more patient.
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After six months of starvation
in a winter den,
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all this food is just too
tempting for the youngster.
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Wise old bears wait for the
salmon to move into the river,
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where they know
the fishing will be easier.
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The incoming tide signals a change.
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The experienced bears now take up
their prized fishing spots
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at the mouth of the river.
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The salmon are finally here.
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As the fish are funnelled
into shallower water,
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a seal gets its chance.
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The wolves will have to wait.
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Bears dominate the river-mouth.
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These bears rely on the salmon run
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for nearly 90% of their year's food.
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Most of the salmon make it
upstream past the bears,
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but now they must run
the gauntlet of wolves.
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The salmon will sustain the wolves
through the rest of the summer.
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The sheer abundance of this
seasonal bounty
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has made these bears
the largest in North America.
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Estuaries are the meeting
place of rivers and sea,
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and they're vital staging
points for migrating birds.
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In Europe, each autumn, they're
visited by millions of waders.
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The birds are returning from their
breeding grounds in the Arctic
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to overwinter in Africa,
and are stopping off to refuel.
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Knot can only feed when
the mudflats are exposed.
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At high tide,
they're forced onshore
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where they must wait for the tide
to turn and reopen the larder.
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A peregrine falcon.
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BIRDS SQUAWK
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Young peregrines come to these
estuaries in autumn...
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to hunt waders.
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Peregrines are the world's
fastest aerial hunters,
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but this is a very challenging
environment for a young falcon.
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It's one predator faced
with thousands of prey.
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Flashing black and white,
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the swirling mass of wings dazzles
the falcon's sensitive eyesight.
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An individual target
may be a better option.
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A peregrine's plumage
is not properly waterproof,
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so he can't afford to get
his feathers wet.
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He must flush his prey into the air.
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But as soon as he gets close,
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the waders ditch into
the sea where he can't follow.
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Success depends on keeping his prey
away from the water.
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Now it's a dogfight at
close quarters.
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Peregrines only stay around estuaries
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for the few months
the waders are there.
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As soon as their prey leaves,
they will head back inland.
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Some animals come to the coast,
not to feed
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but to have their young.
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SEA LION CALLS
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Patagonian sea lions.
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These are just a few months old.
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Sea lions can't give birth at sea,
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they must come to land
to have their pups.
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Each summer, thousands cluster in
colonies
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along Argentina's Valdes Peninsula.
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The mothers regularly return to
sea to hunt...
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..but their young stay on the beach
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for they have not
yet learnt to swim.
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Orca. Killer whales.
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They come at exactly the same
time each year to hunt the pups.
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It's a narrow window of opportunity
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and the odds are stacked
against the hunters.
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Just like the dolphins,
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orca take great risks in leaving
their natural habitat.
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With every attack, there's a
real danger of being stranded.
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Orca can only hunt for
a few hours each day,
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because at low tide a rocky reef
blocks their access to the beach.
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So until the tide is high,
the pups are safe.
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Early in the season the orca have
one big advantage...
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..the pups are naive and don't yet
recognise the whales as a threat.
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But the young sea lions will
learn quickly.
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Silently, the killer whales
move into position.
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Less than half the attacks are
successful
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and with each attempt,
the pups grow wiser.
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The orca's advantage is
slipping away.
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For the next few weeks,
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hunter and hunted are locked
in a desperate race.
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The orca to seize pups,
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and the sea lions to learn how to
evade their attacks.
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These young sea lions have triumphed.
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They've learnt to recognise
the danger and evade the killers.
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For the orca,
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the window of opportunity has
closed for another season.
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Newfoundland, Canada.
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A unique seasonal event is about to
transform this place.
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It is the greatest coastal breeding
spectacle on the planet,
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but it will only last a week or two.
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Capelin.
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Billions of them.
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In early summer,
these tiny fish mass just offshore.
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The great shoals inevitably attract
predators.
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Humpback whales.
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They've travelled over 3,000 miles
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from their breeding grounds
in the Caribbean.
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Nowhere else in the world
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do humpback whales gather
to feed in greater numbers.
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But no sooner have the whales arrived
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than the capelin do
something apparently suicidal.
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They deliberately cast
themselves ashore,
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and, once out of water,
they lay their eggs.
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They're one of only
two species of fish
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that leave the ocean to
spawn like this.
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A fish out of water is an easy meal.
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But capelin go to these
extreme lengths
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to give their offspring
the best chance of survival.
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For many,
it's the ultimate sacrifice.
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Cod.
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Great numbers of them
move in from deeper water
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to plunder this brief bounty.
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Their impact on the
vast shoals is small
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but as they hunt, the cod drive
capelin off the seabed
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and up into the range
of the waiting humpbacks.
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The whales herd
the fish against the cliffs.
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Then they unleash a secret weapon.
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ERRATIC WHALE SOUNDS
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These bizarre calls
panic the capelin,
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driving the fish ever
closer together,
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making them a more
concentrated target.
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ERRATIC WHALE SOUNDS CONTINUE
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This bonanza will disperse
within days,
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so the humpbacks have to make
the most of it while they can.
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Hunters at the coast are always
in a race against time.
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The Hunt team came to Chile to film
the world's smallest sea mammal...
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..the South American marine otter.
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The thing about these otters
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is no-one really knows
anything about them.
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No-one's actually studied them
for any length of time at all.
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So Mark is going to have to work out
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the otters' movements
and habits for himself.
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These otters have never
been filmed before,
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but Mark has a lot of experience
with British otters
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so it should be straightforward.
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Filming them underwater, however,
is a daunting prospect -
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no-one has ever tried
to dive with them.
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It's not going to be easy. Maybe one
shot a day, two shots a day
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would be a successful trip.
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But the underwater team has a plan.
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Now, what we've got are these
camouflaged wet suits,
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camouflage tape on the camera,
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just to try and help us to blend in
a little bit more.
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And so does Mark.
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Well, you probably can't actually
see me now, of course,
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covered in camo.
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But going to work,
definitely going to work.
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00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,960
Much better than Pearson's camo
wet suit palaver!
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Grown men dressed like that,
it's ridiculous.
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We can't just get into the
water and see them
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because they move too quickly.
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So I've got this little comms unit
inside of my mask
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and I can listen to it underwater.
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Joaquin can talk to me from
the search.
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Oh, there's one.
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JOAQUIN: He's going west under
rock one.
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I repeat, west under rock one.
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He's on the surface,
swimming really fast to three.
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A combination of eyes
on the surface...
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He's coming back to two.
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00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:44,240
..and camouflage below
brings early results.
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00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:52,760
Filming otters underwater is turning
out to be easier than Doug expected.
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That was cool.
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I wasn't sure we were going to see
one of these guys underwater
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but, yeah, very encouraging.
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Success for the underwater team
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means the pressure is now on Mark.
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I've been here six-and-a-half hours
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and I've got one shot.
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00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,280
Not very good shot of it
on a rock over there.
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It's not going to work.
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It's not going to work like that.
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I think the only way that we're
going to get any more
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is to find out a way of getting
consistently close to them.
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I think the only way of doing that
is at a den
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where there's cubs and they're
coming back to it consistently.
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Surprisingly, the most likely
den site is in a busy harbour.
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So we are just by the den of the
otters
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and we are going to put the
hide on location
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to hopefully get some shots
of the otter up close.
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00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:04,200
It's just a very weird mixture of,
like, trying to hide from the animal
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00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,840
when in fact it just sees
people all the time.
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00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:10,120
Doesn't quite add up.
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00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,600
Right, well, you can just leave me
in here now. I'm quite happy.
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00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,480
Just send me down empanadas
every few hours.
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00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,400
See if you can have a word with
the otters,
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00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,080
tell them that dinner's up.
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00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:36,040
I've been sat here now for
three hours, looking at a rock.
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00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,680
After a week of surveillance...
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00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,760
Where's it gone, where is it,
where is it, where is it?
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00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,240
..Mark is no closer to figuring out
any pattern
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00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:53,200
in the otters' behaviour.
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00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,400
Oh, don't do that.
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00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,600
He's had only fleeting glimpses
of the adults and no cubs.
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00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,840
The weird thing is,
I've filmed otters in Scotland
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and so I've been equating those
otters with these otters.
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00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,200
The more you find out
about these otters,
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you realise that they're just
not similar at all.
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00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,600
All your tactics that you
thought would work with otters
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are just straight out the window,
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00:52:21,240 --> 00:52:22,840
so it's like starting again.
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00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:30,320
News of another otter family
nearby raises Mark's hopes.
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00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:31,560
(It's going to happen.)
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00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:34,840
The day starts out with promise.
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ON RADIO: 'I've just seen
one of the cubs in the den.
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00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,800
'Just for...
It was about half a second.'
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00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:46,600
That's great news. Over.
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00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,400
But the sun brings out
unwelcome visitors.
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00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:56,600
Ah, yeah, there's been one around.
About three hours ago,
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00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:02,440
but a few people have turned up
on the beach
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00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:03,920
and we haven't seen it since.
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00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,400
The topside shoot is proving to be
much more difficult
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00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,240
than anyone could have imagined.
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00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:17,760
This is rather depressing
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00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:22,160
because it's the only place that we
have been able to actually see cubs.
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00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:29,560
The big worry, really, is that the
cubs are being moved
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from den to den.
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00:53:31,720 --> 00:53:33,760
If they are being moved from
den to den,
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00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:37,600
then staking the dens out
is almost impossible.
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00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:42,240
Such are the challenges of trying
to film an animal
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00:53:42,240 --> 00:53:44,160
about which we know so little.
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00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,320
With all their options exhausted,
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00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:56,440
Mark and Ignacio dismantle
their hide in the harbour.
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00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:00,360
Wow! Wow!
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00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:04,200
Oh, my... What the...?
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00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,840
The hide that was supposed to be for
Mark has been used by the otters.
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00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:09,280
Look at his face!
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00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:18,040
I can't believe it.
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00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:21,480
They've been using
the hide as a larder for their food.
397
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,120
I've never felt so utterly defeated
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00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,000
by an animal
that I've tried to film.
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00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:38,960
After two months, I still
have no idea about these animals.
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00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:40,480
Really no idea.
401
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:46,440
I thought that was an otter, then!
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00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:57,240
I just went to see in another cove
this early morning,
403
00:54:57,240 --> 00:55:02,000
and I just found two little cubs
playing in the water with one adult.
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00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:05,480
What?
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00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,760
We've finally got within 100 metres
of a mother and cubs.
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00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:21,640
Through sheer persistence,
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00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:25,240
Mark finally gets his chance
to film an otter family.
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00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:41,200
You know, they don't
feel like mammals,
409
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:42,760
they're almost like little eels,
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00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:45,560
you know, the way they disappear
underneath the boulders.
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00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,120
I think we've genuinely revealed
something new about them -
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00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:51,280
how they hunt.
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00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:52,880
You know, they go through
these rocks
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00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:54,800
and that's why they're so small.
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00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,960
What makes the otters successful
hunters on this coast
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00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,160
is also what makes them
so hard to film...
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00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:11,000
..they're small, fast and have an
affinity for nooks and crannies.
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00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:17,280
And Mark?
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00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,320
He's finally learnt the secret
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00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:21,920
to filming the world's smallest
marine mammal.
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00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:24,800
Keep the faith.
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00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:28,320
Yeah, keep the faith.
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00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:35,360
Next time, in the final episode,
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we examine the health
of our planet's top predators.
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We meet the pioneers
on the front-line,
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searching for bold solutions.
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00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:54,640
Can people make room for the world's
most celebrated hunters?
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Open University poster, call...
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