Sharks and Baby Animals Our Planet

It's our planet!

It's our planet!

Sharks are amazing fish that have been around for millions of years.

They have swum in the seas

since long before the dinosaurs walked the Earth.

Lots of sharks have sleek bodies

that help them glide through the water.

And if you look carefully,

you'll see that sharks have a row of gill slits behind their heads.

This is what they use to breathe.

Rays, like these stingrays are actually flattened sharks.

Stingrays have a poisonous sting in their tail.

This is a manta ray.

It's the largest of all the rays.

A manta ray can grow as big as a car.

Its gill slits are on the underside of its body.

Manta rays flap their huge fins like wings,

which make them look as if they are flying through the water.

One of the strangest-looking sharks is the hammerhead.

Its eyes are on each side of its hammer-shaped head.

It swings its head from side to side so it can look around.

This zebra shark has spots like a leopard.

Although when it's very young, it has stripes.

That's why it's called a zebra shark.

Sharks have rough skin like sandpaper.

That's why this rainbow runner fish is rubbing against it.

Rubbing helps it keep clean.

Lots of sharks, like this silky shark, need to keep moving,

otherwise it can't breathe and will drown.

But this white-tipped reef shark is able to rest on the seabed.

As long as it keeps opening and closing its mouth,

it's able to breathe.

Now, this is the biggest fish in the ocean.

It's a whale shark, and they can grow bigger than a bus.

These gentle giants feed on tiny creatures called plankton.

Look at all these different types of sharks.

They're amazing creatures.

It's our planet!

Boing, boing, boing!

I'm a bouncing rabbit! Boing, boing, boing!

I'm a tall giraffe.

Can you be an animal too?

Boing, boing, boing!

I'm a bouncing rabbit. Boing, boing, boing!

I'm a tall giraffe.

What animal is this?

It's a shark.

And Tom?

He's a lion.

It's our planet!

There are more creatures for you to see.

Some baby animals look just like their parents.

Baby chimpanzees look just like their mum and dad.

They're good climbers, even when they're still just babies.

Although this one still has a lot to learn.

When they're little, baby chimps cling on to mum for protection.

They watch everything that their mum does

so they learn how to find food and deal with tricky things like nuts.

These babies have just hatched out of their eggs.

They're baby chameleons.

They're exactly like their mum who left them in this nest to hatch out.

They can even eat small insects already.

But they have to take care,

because they are so tiny, they could be eaten up too.

This animal is a type of fish, and it lives in the sea.

Can you guess what it is?

It's a sea horse.

Sea horses have babies too,

and they also look just like their mum and dad.

With most animals, mummies have the babies.

But sea horses are different,

because sea horse daddies have their babies.

These children are looking at a baby barn owl.

It's not very old at all.

But it already looks just like its mum and dad.

When it was born, it looked very different,

because it didn't have many feathers.

But now, it has all its feathers, and it likes having them stroked.

Some baby animals don't look anything like their parents when they are born.

Look at these hungry caterpillars.

They are eating up lots of leaves so they can grow.

When they're big enough,

they turn into a chrysalis.

And eventually...

they change from the chrysalis and turn into a beautiful butterfly.

Caterpillars turn into butterflies.

It's our planet!

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