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build sandcastles. Other people like to relax so I thought I would help | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
him. A sandcastle, and a snooze. can't move, get it off! Who would | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
fall asleep on a sandy beach? off! Sorry, I would love to, but I | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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programme that aims to get you off your sofa. I am Naomi Wilkinson. | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
am Tim Warwood, and today we are by the seaside. We do like to be beside | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
the seaside! Today we find ourselves all the way across the country at | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
the Sealife Centre in Hunstanton in Norfolk. We want to know if you have | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
been to the beach recently. If so, go to the website. We want to hear | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
about your seaside adventures. haven't come all this way on our | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
own, have we? No, we have brought our fabulous group. Fabulous? ! It | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
is not just the crew, it is time to introduce a man who is so amazing, | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
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he has rad in his name, it is Radzi. It is worth honing your artistic | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
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skill this week because the forfeit involves cleaning. And... Sharks. | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
cannot believe it, he said cleaning. No, he said sharks. Don't worry | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
about that. Welcome our special guests, windsurfing freestyle | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
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champion, and an epic adventure, -- adventurer, Dave Cornthwaite. We | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
have all of that and oceans more. Are you happy with that? From the | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
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girl who said otterly fabulous last week? I get close to a stunning | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
seabird spectacle. And swimming with seals for an animal and counter of a | :03:36. | :03:46. | |
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lifetime. Then goes in search of some surprising seaside residents. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Those seals look adorable, and even better I will be meeting some baby | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
seals live on the show later. We have to keep them away from our | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
first guest, top of the food chain, a ruthless predator. Sea snakes.No, | :04:04. | :04:14. | |
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a bird of prey, lives on the coast, a white toed eagle. I was close.Not | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
really. It can grow up to a metre tall, have a wingspan of nearly 2.5 | :04:23. | :04:32. | |
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metres, and weighing in at seven kilos. This is the white-tailed | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
eagle. Once extinct here, they have been reintroduced to Scotland and | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
can once again be seen flying across our coastline. They are scavengers | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
and opportunists, but also deadly hunters. They swoop down on the fish | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
and catch them from the water. We are now welcoming to Wild Graham, | :04:59. | :05:09. | |
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and a stunning white-tailed eagle. Who is this? This is Pamela. They | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
are the iconic species. Can we look at the wingspan because that is | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
ridiculously big, isn't it? Why do they have to be so big? They help to | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
carry their big body weight through the sky and they are normally | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
catching fish and even seabirds. That is absolutely special. It has a | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
white tail, why's that? whitetail is an indication it is a | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
fish eating birds because the normally swim at the top of the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
surface, and this bird snatches them, and the fish cannot see it | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
coming because of blends in with the skyline. Look at its talons, why do | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
they need such deadly tools? This can carry three times its own body | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
weight, if you imagine a massive fish, she has got to grip onto it, | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
and she turns it so it is facing forward so that she is streamlined. | :06:22. | :06:31. | |
Amazing. We have to comment on her enormous peak. It glistens off the | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
light, it is an incredible bit of kit. Is that how she kills her prey? | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
Yes, once she has grabbed it, she rips at the back of the neck. | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
are these birds so special for you? She is majestic, she doesn't look at | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
you, she looks straight through you. There has been a massive | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
reintroduction programme, do you think we will see them spreading | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
across the UK? It would be lovely to think so. Fingers crossed we might | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
see one in Norfolk. To me, and eagle represents everything about Wild, | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
wild and rugged. Radzi, what do the audience make of Pamela? Pamela is | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
so cool. What do we think in the audience? She is lovely, I just love | :07:33. | :07:42. | |
how her beak has that tip, and how big her wings are, and her talons | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
and how her tale is white. She is lovely. I couldn't agree more. Have | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
you seen any birds in the wild? I have seen vultures, eagles and | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
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hawks. If you have seen any birds in the wild, send them to -- send the | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
pictures to the website and we might be able to show them later. Also if | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
you have a photo of yourself doing any activities, send them in. | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
have a photo from Alfie, age seven, this is him body boarding. He is a | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
wild kid. We also have a picture from Andre, catching his first | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
waves. He loves sharks, and has also tried dolphin spotting. We have time | :08:48. | :08:57. | |
from one comment - I was swimming in the sea and saw lots of tiny | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
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fishes. Before I forget, about the forfeit later, can you swim? Yes. | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
Can Tim swim? I think so, why? You have mentioned swimming and sharks. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
Stay tuned for this terrible forfeit. I hope Tim can swim because | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
he is heading out to sea with our next guest. I do need to be able to | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
swim because I am learning some windsurfing basics from one of the | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
best in the business. Look at this. Andy Chambers, known to the | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
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windsurfing world as Bubble has been the windsurfing champion for five | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
years. It takes stamina, strength and skill to pull off these | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
spectacular moves at such high speeds. We can now welcoming him to | :10:10. | :10:19. | |
Wild, it is Andy Chambers. Welcome to the show. Let's not glossed over | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
it, there is no wind here, so not ideal conditions for your chosen | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
sport, but you can get up to some incredible tricks. Yes, when it is | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
windy you can do all sorts of crazy moves, a lot of rotations. Earlier | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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you were telling me about a trick... Yes, stopping midair, and | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
rotating backwards again. That is defying physics! How did you get | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
into windsurfing? I used to sit on the beach watching people flying | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
around, and I thought it was epic, I had to have a go at it. Can anybody | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
do windsurfing? Definitely, anybody can have a go. The beginners' boards | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
are very light, and if you are sporty you will have no worries. | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
What do you get out of teaching? is so nice to see people getting so | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
much enjoyment out of the sport that I get so much enjoyment out of. It | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
makes the whole thing totally worth it. Wild would not be Wild if I | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
didn't give it a go. Come on! the back of the board for me. The | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
main thing, keep your knees bent, your arms straight, look where you | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
want to go and you should be fine. Easy as that. Arms straight. It is | :12:14. | :12:23. | |
all right! Try to keep your arms nice and straight. Knees bent, arms | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
straight. Look to where you want to go. It is obviously easier when | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
there is some wind. I am all right! It is a lot harder it looks. Naomi, | :12:42. | :12:50. | |
you should have a go at this. think she would be better at it! | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
Fortunately we have another Tim on the show today, and he is in here | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
with our next creature. He has brought in a marine animal that is | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
downright weird and it is related to this. Down in the depths of the | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
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ocean, there is a real monster in the abyss. It is a giant deep sea I | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
-- isopod, and they live at the bottom of the oceans. Food is scarce | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
in this barren world. They scavenge on the remains of dead whales, fish | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
and giant squid that fall from the water above. Life is feast or famine | :13:40. | :13:50. | |
for these mysterious creatures of the deep. Here is Doctor Tim | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
Cockerel. Nice to see you again. You have brought in a special animal, | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
what is this? We are so lucky to have this because normally lives 600 | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
metres will oversee on the ocean floor. It is a giant deep sea | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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isopod, and it is related to the woodlouse in your back garden. | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
is so similar. Woodlouse is a type of isopod as well, but this is 30 | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
times bigger. Why is it so big Western Mark because they live on | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
the floor of the ocean, they are very sensitive to light levels so we | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
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have to be very careful. It is so alien, it has triangular eyes. | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
uses them to track down things that glow-in-the-dark. It has four sets | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
of mouthparts. It scavenges along on dead things on the ocean floor, but | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
it can also track down live things like sea cucumbers as well. They eat | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
a lot, don't they? Yes, they can eat until they can barely move. Their | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
size helps them cope with the pressure at that depth. Yes, the | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
reason woodlice don't grow this big is because they have their skeleton | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
on the outside and they have to shed their skin when they grow. If this | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
was on land it would collapse under its own weight so the water helps to | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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support it. Can I touch it?Nice and gentle. It is unbelievable. Kieran | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
that works at the aquarium actually found an isopod a lot smaller than | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
this just out on the beach, which is pretty amazing. I bet she would have | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
been a bit more wary if you had known they were out there! I am glad | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
I did not know. But look at how I got on when I kayaked out to a | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
simply stunning seabird spectacle in Scotland are couple of weeks ago. -- | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
a couple of weeks ago. The UK coastline is surrounded by | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
literally thousands of islands. Some are large, some no more than a lump | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
of rock sticking out of the sea. Like that one. It might look like | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
just a rock, but it is very special. It might be off the coast of | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
Scotland, but that is not snow on the top. That white colour is from | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
the thousands and thousands of birds living there. It is home to one of | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
the world 's largest colonies of nesting gannets. In the summer, | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
every nuke and cranny, ledge and precipice is covered with over | :17:12. | :17:20. | |
150,000 majestic seabirds. All here to nest and raise chicks. There is a | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
simple way for me to get to the rock. I could go in a boat like this | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
one, but this one is apparently for the crew, so I am going to be | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
travelling via kayak. I will be paddling all the way. How far is | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
that? One mile? ! I have never been one of these before! | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
Check me out! Only joking, that is not really me! I am new to this, so | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
I have enlisted the help of expert George, who will show me how it is | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
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done. Look! The conditions are perfect. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
There it is, just over one mile away. It does not look too far but | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
it will take me around one hour to reach it, so I think it will hurt. I | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
have bandages, ready for the blisters, but I can't wait to see | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
these birds. So over these waves, just keep going? Keep paddling, nice | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
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and steady, don't worry about flying around it. So many of them. | :18:47. | :18:56. | |
Keep up! I said it was supposed to be a nice, | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
relaxing day out, we are not racing. I'm enjoying it, it is fun. | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
From here, it looks like a snow globe that has been shaken, the | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
birds look like snow. It. Their wingspan is nearly two metres, just | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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under the size of my paddle. They Do you know why they are called | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
gannets? Greedy by name, greedy by nature? They can need up to 10% of | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
their own body weight a day, which I have been told, which is the | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
equivalent of meeting 40 burgers. If I did that, I would not fit in this | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
sea kayak! It is not just the amount of food | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
they that is astonishing, they are famous for the way they catch their | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
food. They dive like a spear into the sea from 30 metres into the air | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
and reach speeds of up to 60 miles an hour. To protect themselves | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
against the impact of diving into the water, they have special air | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
sacs under their skin, like their very own bubble wrap. Look! So many | :20:18. | :20:26. | |
birds! It smells a bit like the penguin | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
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enclosure at the zoo! They are very similar. I was just nearly pooed on. | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
I just missed it by a millimetre! They really have found every single | :20:47. | :20:56. | |
crevice to nest in. Anything just about flat enough to land on. | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
are couple up their who are doing the equivalent of our kissing, they | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
do it to reaffirm their bond when they meet again. True romantics! | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
Look at the seal! It is right here! Wow! We have half the population of | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
grey seals living around the British coasts. Lucky us, because they are | :21:21. | :21:31. | |
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lovely. Where has he gone? You have to look up to appreciate | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
the spectacle, but I am making sure that I keep my mouth shut! This has | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
been wonderful. From this close and this low, I can see why this is a | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
world-famous wildlife spectacle. And to reach it by sea kayak has made it | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
that bit more perfect. But I am exhausted, so could I catch a lift | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
home with you, please? Come back! Come back! | :22:02. | :22:11. | |
They just left me. Did you get pooed on? A tiny bit on one finger, which | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
I think was a miracle, it is so great. Did you lick it off?No! | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
We have already had a look at some of the wonderful wildlife and a | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
slightly weird one, but now it is time to take a look at the seemingly | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
insignificant little critters that live in the rock pools and under the | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
seaweed. They are the unsung zeros of the seaside. It is time for | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
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Yes. Step into the ring, I will fill you in on the rules. Tim and Naomi | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
have three rounds to convince me that their beastie is worthy of | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
being placed in the big time, in the champions corner. Tim is the current | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
leader, so we'll Naomi last the distance? Naomi, who is your | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
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contender? I have the one, the only crab! Tim? I am bringing this deadly | :23:25. | :23:35. | |
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dude, the astonishing jellyfish! crowd are well up for this! Round | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
one, weapons! This will be easy. Crabs have their very own body | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
armour, hard shells called exoskeletons. Their main weapon they | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
are most famous for is their claws. They can crush with some of the | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
strongest forces in the animal kingdom, and the stone crab can | :23:55. | :24:04. | |
exert a pressure greater than a crocodile bites. Jellyfish have | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
weapons, too. They have long, stinging tentacles. They jab poison | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
into their prey which either paralyse is all kills them. They can | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
even sting when they are lying dying on a beach while being prodded by a | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
60 role Tim Warwood! I was still really badly! They can kill a human | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
being in less than four minutes. That type of jellyfish is not | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
technically a true jellyfish. Technicality, they are part of the | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
same family. My Nanny Hughes has an anti-Tracy, she is not a relative | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
but we get a Christmas card! You would be dead before this battle is | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
finished, four minutes. The crowd maybe -- the crab may be tough on | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
the outside, but the stinging tentacles of the jellyfish have slid | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
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it into first place. Round two, strength in numbers. Let me tell you | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
something. Strength in numbers, the jellyfish, there are over 2000 | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
types. The good thing about this is they swarm. When they get together, | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
they have been known to knock down nuclear power stations! Not just | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
that, there is a lake in Indonesia which harbours 10 million | :25:39. | :25:48. | |
jellyfish, 10 million! Only a measly 10 million? ! On Christmas Island in | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
the Indian Ocean, there is an estimated 120 million crabs. Every | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
year they migrate to the sea and the swarm is so big it literally turns | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
the ground red. There are over 6700 different types of crabs. Some of | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
them can lay over 1.5 million eggs each! Talk about strength in | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
numbers! It blows your jellyfish out of the water. Which if that | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
happened, they would shrivel up and die. Crabs can leave in the sea, in | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
water, on trees. Nobody can question the commitment from Wilkinson, but | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
those efforts have paid dividends as the crab is now in level pegging. | :26:36. | :26:44. | |
Now the deciding round. The knockout round! I have got this. Jellyfish | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
have no eyes, no ears, no brain, no lungs, scales, Gilles, brains, | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
lungs, they are 95% water. brain? Sounds like your perfect | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
animal! But crabs have brains and eyes on stalks like submarines, some | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
of them can see around a 360 degrees. Some deep C jellyfish | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
glow-in-the-dark! Some crabs get to live to be 100! There is one species | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
of jellyfish which is technically a mortal. It ages in reverse. Can you | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
imagine if you put that into a face cream? I would be young and | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
beautiful! That is the end of the Battle of the | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
Beasties. Immortality just about trumps everything, so sliding into | :27:41. | :27:50. | |
the champions corner this week is the jellyfish. -- the champion's | :27:50. | :28:00. | |
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corner. Modesty, modesty! We only have 30 | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
minutes left to convince everyone to get off their sofas and down to | :28:07. | :28:17. | |
their local seaside. If you still need inspiration, don't worry. There | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
is a Summer of Wildlife events near you. It encourages people to get out | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
and about. But it is not all about the summer of wildlife. After the | :28:27. | :28:34. | |
show, wait for the show to finish, then press the red button for Wild | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
Extra, where Katie and Dodge have a load of exclusives. We have been | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
asking you to send in your photos and comments, you have not | :28:43. | :28:53. | |
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disappointed. Jamie aged eight is kayaking in West Wales. There is one | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
comment from Rosie, she says, I was at a small beach in Torquay where we | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
found a baby jellyfish floating in a bucket, and a few minutes later we | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
found another. It was awesome. not touch it, it will sting you! | :29:21. | :29:31. | |
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next week! I have come to the seal hospital in the Sea Life Centre, | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
where police seals are brought. We have a lovely little pool. They are | :29:39. | :29:45. | |
being looked after by a very dedicated team of helpers, including | :29:45. | :29:53. | |
Hollie. Who do we have? These are just too cute for words. Look at | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
that face. Aren't they adorable? have Superman and Lois Lane, they | :30:00. | :30:08. | |
are waiting for their breakfast. They all have funny names! Buries a | :30:08. | :30:16. | |
superhero theme, Batman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman. They are fed every | :30:16. | :30:22. | |
four hours. They are quite hungry. Let's have a look. What else do you | :30:22. | :30:30. | |
have to do each day? We feed them every four hours, we take their | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
temperature everyone in and afternoon. We weigh them every | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
couple of days to make sure they are growing. They just look so hungry. | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
How long will they be in your car? About two months, but as soon as | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
they weigh 30 kilos we release them back where they belong. We tack them | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
and if they wash up in future we know that they started here and we | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
can trace their history. Here is some footage of you putting them | :31:01. | :31:08. | |
back. You put tags on them, so you know if a comeback. What sort of | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
things are brought in for? These were abandoned by their mothers for | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
a variety of reasons. It could be strong currents, high tide, numbers | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
of the public with dogs. We go down with the team and we look at them, | :31:25. | :31:30. | |
when they are this small they their fish soup every four hours. | :31:30. | :31:38. | |
somebody found one? Give us a call. If they come into the Sea Life | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
Centre we would keep them updated and put pictures on the website. You | :31:41. | :31:48. | |
can follow their progress. They just melt your heart. I hope they feel | :31:48. | :31:53. | |
better soon. This will keep you busy for the physio Bull future. | :31:53. | :32:03. | |
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Definitely. Talking of busy, Tim is about to meet a man who never stops. | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
Davies the master of alternative transport, from kayaking paddle | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
boarding and everything else in between. He skateboarders across | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
Australia, and paddle boarded the length of the Mississippi River, and | :32:21. | :32:27. | |
is on a mission to complete 25 adventures in some of the world's | :32:27. | :32:35. | |
wildest places. All completed with no motors and fuel. Here's the | :32:35. | :32:45. | |
:32:45. | :32:54. | ||
ultimate adventurer, Dave Cornthwaite. What inspires you to go | :32:54. | :33:00. | |
out and have these amazing adventures? I used to be a graphic | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
designer and I was rubbish so I decided to make the most of my life | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
and do something I was passionate about. You have been all over the | :33:09. | :33:16. | |
world doing crazy adventures, which brings us to this bad boy, the | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
aqua-skipping. How did you come across this? I read about it in a | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
newspaper and I wondered if I could cross the Channel in that. I thought | :33:27. | :33:34. | |
that would be a relentlessly foolish idea! You are the British 100 metre | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
record holder on this, I gather there weren't too many challengers, | :33:39. | :33:46. | |
but can anybody have a go at this? Anybody can have a go with the right | :33:46. | :33:52. | |
situation and I would like to teach you how to do it. I am itching to | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
have a go. Let's have a demonstration and see the | :33:56. | :34:06. | |
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have a go at this, it is incredibly difficult and I don't know what to | :34:19. | :34:25. | |
say, other than... Dave is making it look very easy, I am going to have a | :34:25. | :34:33. | |
go and see what happens. Everything we have thrown at him so far, he has | :34:33. | :34:42. | |
mastered. Off he goes. He said I have seen this, it looks really | :34:42. | :34:49. | |
easy! I bet he is regretting saying that now. He has to go back to the | :34:49. | :34:59. | |
:34:59. | :35:04. | ||
beginning to have a go again. Go on, Tim! And again! He is going for it. | :35:04. | :35:12. | |
The art of Aqua sinking! If you thought swimming was something you | :35:12. | :35:22. | |
:35:22. | :35:27. | ||
could only do indoors, think again. We sent some of you out on an | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
exciting experience. All summer, we have been seeking wild things in | :35:31. | :35:37. | |
every corner of the UK, and now we are 30 miles off the Cornish coast | :35:37. | :35:47. | |
:35:47. | :35:47. | ||
at the stunning Scilly Isles. 12-year-old Tanya is mad about | :35:47. | :35:53. | |
swimming, not just in her local pool. She also loves taking a dip in | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
the spectacular surrounding seaside of her home and today she has | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
arranged for three of her friends to join her on a very special swim. | :36:03. | :36:13. | |
Hello, my name is Tanya. I like being inside and lazing around. | :36:13. | :36:23. | |
:36:23. | :36:24. | ||
Hello, my name is Henry and I don't like spiders. My name is Reece, I | :36:24. | :36:33. | |
don't like spinach. The remote and beautiful Scilly Isles have some | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
fantastic wildlife, and Tanya is planning to introduce her friends to | :36:38. | :36:46. | |
some furry locals. Grey seals. There are about 180,000 of them living | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
around the coast of the UK. They are air breathing mammals just like you | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
and me, and these champion swimmers are perfectly adapted to a life at | :36:57. | :37:07. | |
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sea. While swimming can be dangerous so, to stay safe, expert instructors | :37:07. | :37:17. | |
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friends with you? We'll be taking you out here to swim the seals. Come | :37:33. | :37:43. | |
:37:43. | :37:50. | ||
down then. -- to swim with the seals. A short five-minute boat ride | :37:50. | :38:00. | |
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will take the team right to seal central. The seals live here all | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
year round so there is a good chance of spotting one, but our team are | :38:05. | :38:11. | |
hoping for a very close encounter. am worried about the coldness of the | :38:11. | :38:20. | |
water but it will be fine. They are really close, right by the boat. All | :38:20. | :38:25. | |
around basically! It is time to see if the seals will stick around to | :38:25. | :38:35. | |
:38:35. | :38:39. | ||
play. Are you ready? Let's go.The temperature is 13 Celsius, about | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
half that of a heated swimming pool, so even in a wetsuit, it is a | :38:44. | :38:50. | |
bit of a shock to the system. The seals are protected from the chilly | :38:50. | :39:00. | |
water by dense fur and a thick layer of fatty blubber. Wild animals are | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
naturally cautious so getting close is never guaranteed, and the rocks | :39:06. | :39:14. | |
for the seals plenty of places to stay out of sight. Now, all the gang | :39:14. | :39:24. | |
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can do is try to brave the freezing water in -- long enough for the | :39:26. | :39:36. | |
:39:36. | :39:36. | ||
inquisitive seals to come and have a look. After an hour-long game of | :39:36. | :39:41. | |
hide and Seek, the seals start to relax and invite the team into their | :39:41. | :39:51. | |
:39:51. | :39:58. | ||
underwater world. Our team and finally rewarded with a phenomenal | :39:58. | :40:08. | |
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thought I saw seaweed underneath and then it moved and it was | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
camouflaged! It is amazing to get that close to an animal that is not | :40:52. | :41:00. | |
domestic. I saw two seals underwater, they are really amazing. | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
It looked to me right in the eye and it was a couple of inches from my | :41:05. | :41:11. | |
face, and our noses nearly touched. It was staring at me. It is probably | :41:11. | :41:17. | |
one of the most amazing things I have ever done. It sounds like Tanya | :41:17. | :41:24. | |
has successfully converted her friends to the world of wild | :41:24. | :41:31. | |
swimming. I hope they will do it again because it really is great. | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
are wild! I would put up with cold water like that have an encounter | :41:36. | :41:45. | |
with a wild seal wouldn't you? Definitely. It is not just seals on | :41:45. | :41:55. | |
:41:55. | :41:58. | ||
the coastline, is it? There are loads of fish. Not just fish, way | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
cooler things than that. Some surprising sea life visit our | :42:02. | :42:08. | |
shores. We have 28 different marine mammals in the UK, from the | :42:09. | :42:15. | |
beautiful bottlenose dolphin to the handsome harbour pawpaw use. You may | :42:15. | :42:20. | |
even be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a killer whale, or even a | :42:20. | :42:30. | |
:42:30. | :42:32. | ||
humpback whale. Then there are the sharks, basking sharks to blue | :42:32. | :42:38. | |
sharks, and I bet you didn't know the largest ever leatherback turtle | :42:38. | :42:48. | |
:42:48. | :42:49. | ||
was found in Cardiff Bay. There are also the weird looking sunfish, and | :42:49. | :42:59. | |
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seahorses. We have one of those species right here in this tank. | :43:00. | :43:09. | |
What species is this? Hippocampus hippocampus. What a groovy name. | :43:10. | :43:17. | |
They don't look like normal fish but they are fish. Yes, they have just | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
evolved to look different. To swim they use their fins on their backs, | :43:21. | :43:27. | |
which vibrate to keep them going forward. Then they have fins on each | :43:27. | :43:34. | |
side of their head which helps them move around and change direction. | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
They have fascinating eyes. Their eyes can move independently of each | :43:39. | :43:47. | |
other so they can look forward and backwards at the same time. That is | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
awesome. And they wrapped their tails around things, that one has | :43:52. | :43:58. | |
wrapped its tail around the ward. Yes, they use them to grip onto the | :43:58. | :44:08. | |
seagrass beds, where they live. stop them floating? Yes, basically | :44:08. | :44:16. | |
trying to camouflaged themselves. What do they eat? Little tiny | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
animals like shrimp and they have a special mouth to suck it up when | :44:21. | :44:29. | |
they go past. Are they endangered in the UK? Seagrass beds are very | :44:29. | :44:34. | |
endangered habitats and because of that they are endangered in the UK. | :44:34. | :44:42. | |
There is a very cool fact about the males. Yes, the males give birth. | :44:42. | :44:47. | |
The female pops her eggs inside the pouch, and then the male will keep | :44:47. | :44:55. | |
those eggs inside his pouch, then hundreds of babies spurt out. | :44:55. | :45:01. | |
is amazing. Thank you, I really love them. Tim, can you say wherein the | :45:01. | :45:10. | |
UK we might be able to find these seahorses? You are going to have to | :45:10. | :45:14. | |
be very lucky to see them. Down in Dorset is where you will see them, | :45:14. | :45:23. | |
but it is potluck. Busting shark -- basking sharks, you can look at the | :45:23. | :45:28. | |
Western coast of the UK. Killer whales, Shetland and the North | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
Scottish Isles will be your best bet. Radzi, what is your favourite | :45:31. | :45:37. | |
animal? Lou Magro probably the humpback whale. Funny you should say | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
that, because the hump that Quayle will be in Southern Ireland in | :45:42. | :45:52. | |
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November, roundabouts. It is almost 9:45am. That means it is time for | :45:55. | :46:04. | |
Radzi's Crazy Creations. I am very excited. It is going to be | :46:04. | :46:09. | |
a belter. Do you know what you will be doing? You are going to be making | :46:09. | :46:17. | |
your very own rock pool. What?On the rocky shoreline, hiding among | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
the seaweed and stones, there was an undercover world waiting for the | :46:21. | :46:29. | |
tide to turn. On a rock pool ramble, it's easy to find crabs, shrimps, | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
barnacles and fish, all taking cover, ready to pounce on any | :46:33. | :46:40. | |
squabble food that drop into their world. That ready to pounce on any | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
scrap of food. They have to cope with changing conditions and avoid | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
predators and each other until the tide turns to release them into the | :46:48. | :46:55. | |
ocean again. Today you will be making... We have all been on the | :46:55. | :47:00. | |
beach exploring rock pools, today we are making our very own portable | :47:00. | :47:04. | |
personal rock pool. Everything you need is around here - stones, | :47:04. | :47:13. | |
shells, seaweed, sea water, sand. You have got the tags as well. Go! | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
Where has that music come from? That's right! If you were in any | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
doubt about what our wild engineer pirates can do, that is him on the | :47:24. | :47:32. | |
accordion. As you can see, at the very bottom there is a layer of | :47:32. | :47:39. | |
sand. You have stones, seaweed, that provide shelter for the creatures. | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
There is sea water, make sure it is not tap water. That is about it. The | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
whole point is to get up close and personal with the creatures you put | :47:48. | :47:56. | |
in. We want your photographs. If you take a photograph, send it in to us. | :47:56. | :48:02. | |
Our e-mail address is [email protected]. If you want advice | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
about... Tim is down, man overboard! If you want advice about how to make | :48:07. | :48:17. | |
your own, go to the website. You can find our instruction page. How much | :48:17. | :48:26. | |
time do we have left? Something seconds! 50 seconds. Tim, you are | :48:26. | :48:34. | |
sitting down already? Nothing ever changes with you! The fourth it is | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
my favourite yet. We have got an aquarium. It has sharks in it. You | :48:39. | :48:49. | |
:48:49. | :48:50. | ||
are going to be cleaning that shark tank on the inside! No way!Naomi, | :48:50. | :48:59. | |
yours is coming along nicely. I think Tim needs to do some work. The | :48:59. | :49:06. | |
countdown will be starting shortly. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, | :49:06. | :49:16. | |
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three, two, one. Stop ex-nation Mark -- stop! I would give you eight out | :49:20. | :49:27. | |
of ten, Naomi. Look at the state of Tim's. You just threw it all in. I | :49:27. | :49:33. | |
am not even going to judge this. Here is your cleaning equipment! | :49:33. | :49:39. | |
Let's get you ready for the sharks! I am so glad, I don't know if I | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
could have done that. That sounds proper scary. While Tim gets himself | :49:43. | :49:52. | |
ready, we will go in search of a small surprising seaside animal in | :49:52. | :50:02. | |
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another instalment of my Wild Life. I am Ben, I am 13 and I love all | :50:04. | :50:10. | |
British wildlife. My favourite type is reptiles, because they are so | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
interesting. When I was little, I really liked dinosaurs. Then I got | :50:15. | :50:23. | |
into reptiles, they were a lot like dinosaurs. This is Darwin. Scrambled | :50:23. | :50:33. | |
:50:33. | :50:34. | ||
egg is his favourite food. I have got two leopard geckos. I have two | :50:34. | :50:42. | |
tortoises and corn called Maisie. She is about one and a half years | :50:42. | :50:51. | |
old. I am surrounded by reptiles. They are just great to watch. | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
You might not realise we had them in this country, but they love this | :50:55. | :51:00. | |
habitat. There are lots of places to hide, & is perfect for making | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
boroughs. On my average weekend, the first thing I think when I wake up, | :51:05. | :51:11. | |
oh, let's go and look for some sand lizards. You've got to know | :51:11. | :51:15. | |
whereabouts in the sand dunes to look for them, whereabouts in the | :51:15. | :51:23. | |
sand, what patterns they have and where they like to bask. There is a | :51:23. | :51:30. | |
burrow in there. A sand lizard pulls-macro burrow just looks like a | :51:30. | :51:36. | |
rabbit burrow. Often you can see trucks coming in. Dad, we have got | :51:36. | :51:43. | |
some tracks! It could just be a mouse. Sand | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
lizards don't like to cross open spaces, because they have a lot of | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
predators, like birds of prey. They are really fast, they dart around | :51:51. | :51:59. | |
all over the place. He is great at finding stuff. His eyes are so | :51:59. | :52:09. | |
:52:09. | :52:09. | ||
sharp, and his patience is amazing. He perseveres, for sure. It is a | :52:09. | :52:17. | |
pregnant female crab spider. A sand lizard Woody this if it found it. | :52:17. | :52:24. | |
When I first found a sand lizard, it was one of the best feelings ever. | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
You have got to be really concentrated on looking for them, | :52:28. | :52:32. | |
because they are right in the vegetation. There is something | :52:32. | :52:42. | |
:52:42. | :52:43. | ||
moving down here. It is bright green. It has come back! If you just | :52:43. | :52:51. | |
come this way... There it is. Right there, just basking. It is great, | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
especially when you see a male, because they are bright green on the | :52:54. | :53:01. | |
side. It feels, when you find a sand lizard, like finding gold or | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
diamonds or something. If you see one, don't try and pick it up or | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
anything. They are really fragile and you could hurt it. It is illegal | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
to pick them up. The best thing to do was just looks through | :53:13. | :53:21. | |
binoculars. Sand lizard became almost extinct because of habitat | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
loss. Then they started to breed them and introduce more, and now | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
there are quite a few all over the country. It is good to see that they | :53:29. | :53:37. | |
are coming back from almost extinction. | :53:37. | :53:43. | |
We are the entrance of the shark tank. Erie would be an | :53:43. | :53:49. | |
understatement. I am feeling very nervous. You are? Excellent and | :53:49. | :53:57. | |
because I am going to have to swim with sharks! Do I have to do this? | :53:57. | :54:06. | |
You are going to have to. You lost the fourth it. Good luck. Good luck. | :54:06. | :54:16. | |
His legs are both in! Wow! Good luck, Tim! His head is under. Oh, my | :54:16. | :54:26. | |
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so I can't imagine how he must be feeling. Get a cleaning! Put some | :54:32. | :54:36. | |
elbow grease into it. The sharks may not be the biggest that you have | :54:36. | :54:41. | |
ever seen, but there are lots of them. It might look crazy, but it is | :54:41. | :54:48. | |
something the staff here have to do on a weekly basis? Two or three | :54:48. | :54:54. | |
times a week. It is not that scary. The sharks are used to as being in | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
there. They are not bothered at all. They will leave him alone? Wii | :54:58. | :55:08. | |
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yeah. Get cleaning, Tim! If you can get right down, this sea turtle | :55:11. | :55:18. | |
needs cleaning! No, leave him alone. We have shovel nosed rays, | :55:18. | :55:25. | |
stingrays, bonnet head sharks, bamboo sharks. 11 in total. And | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
three stingrays. They can move pretty fast. You are doing a good | :55:29. | :55:39. | |
:55:39. | :55:40. | ||
job. I think he has done well. always steps up to the plate. That | :55:40. | :55:50. | |
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is so, so is hairy. That so, so boarding, I have ever seen that | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
before. I need to get on that. said, I had a wild adventure last | :56:07. | :56:13. | |
week. I was sitting on a surfboard when seals swam by me and my dad. It | :56:13. | :56:21. | |
was amazing. But don't just brilliant. A few weeks ago I went to | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
the beach with my family, we had a contest about who could jump the | :56:25. | :56:35. | |
:56:35. | :56:39. | ||
most ways, and I did 56. Respect! How was that? I turned round at one | :56:40. | :56:43. | |
point, my thing off my back was dangling but I thought it was a | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
shock. Next week we want to know about the animals you might have | :56:48. | :56:51. | |
seen all the adventures you have had deep underground or higher on top of | :56:51. | :56:58. | |
clips. Allah unfortunately, that is all we have had time for. It is time | :56:58. | :57:03. | |
to say goodbye to our special guest, Andy Bubble Chambers and Dave | :57:03. | :57:08. | |
Cornthwaite on the water. Ray and Pamela and Dr Tim. | :57:08. | :57:14. | |
Thank you for having us. And the hand standing sailing club are out | :57:14. | :57:21. | |
on the water. And the audience have been magnificent. Press the red | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
button for Wild Extra and some exclusives for you. Until next | :57:25. | :57:35. | |
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Saturday, get out, get out and go and cliffs. | :57:42. | :57:47. |