Reccommended Books/ Documentaries/ Etc.

Coming soon!

^Book that got my shark obsession really rolling

Mostly for personal reference:

Blue planet episode 1 relevant bc talks about upwelling, has baitball attack (including predatory sharks), orcas attacking whale calf & killed/only ate toungue, maybe has more important points

episode 2: Pretty dang interesting but about deep oceans (no goblin sharks though, def. has some weird fish in it though & in action too, includes hydrothermal vents & those worms that specialize on whale bones)

episode 3: Open ocean episode, lots of marlin/tuna/bird action (on baitfish), only 2 or 3 sp. of shark shown briefly (hammerhead, whitetips, silky?; of course most sharks are coastal); very breifly brought up where 2 ocean currents met it trapped nutrients (probly better off researching that idea) + loads of sardines shown filter feeding where plankton were abundant

Ep 4: Frozen seas (antarctic & arctic) but stil some relevant/ interesting facts.

Antarctic: Billion(s) of krill in a swarm, in total they stretch on for miles. Visiting humpback whales only need to feed on krill there for ~4 months & enough fat reserves for a year (or least rest of year?). Humpbacks continually feed, eat ~2 tons of krill in 24 hours. Minke whales most abundant there (don't grow too big). A seal's best tactic to catching a penguin is sitting/waiting/hiding & ambush underwater.

Arctic: Bowfin whales the only permanent arctic resident whales & largest mouth of any animal (size of small garage).

Ep. 5: Seasonal seas (border temperate zones) 6 billion tons of phytoplankton formed (each year? it doesn't specify) all smaller than a pinhead, blooms turn oceans a dense green color, each spring copepods filter-feed (shows ones w/ long rakers) on them, make feeding trails thru the phytoplankton which is how larger predators find them. In reefs all kinds of benthic filter-feeding inverts (sea squirts, weird anemone-like ones). Sea otters protect CA kelp forests via feeding on sea urchins (which feed on kelp; kelp forests, up to ~30 m tall, can grow 1 m/day, provide shelter for many fishes), bat rays blow on sand to expose prey inverts, female lobsters fight over territory during breeding season, crab larvae have tails & are herbivorous, orcas shown hunting herring school & debilitate them w/ caudal fins creating pressure waves (wanted to fall asleep during this episode even w/ interesting bits at times, but took a nap later on, may have been me, not the episode)

Ep 6: Mostly inverts, showed some jacks herding baitfish along a reef to catch easier. Lots of neat stuff regardless (including showing animation of inside coral, limestone skeleton), lots of whitetips feeding on bottom (iirc) but annoying intense music during. Shows a few humpbacks underwater.

Ep 7(tidal seas): Finback whales shown (2nd largest living animal, but looks skinnier than many) feeding on fish; are very streamlined/ fastest of the great whales/ as many as 500 individuals feed ~bay of Fundy per day during high tide. Bay of Fundy falls 50 m during low tide & exposes sandy bottom. Grizzly bears digging up clams (& later raccoons catching rock crabs during low tide). Largish snails shown moving to a dead fish (riding the tide, body as a "sail") to scavenge on (low tide). Dogfish briefly shown predating on schooling fish, least a couple dolphins digging up & eating live fish (later shown group strategy (only feeding dolphins) making mullet jump & other dolphins catch them out of air waiting for them. Conch hunts down & eats a snail. Mangrove underwater shots breifly shown includes mango snapper & tarpon gulping for air. Flamingo foraging & mobilizing group shown

Make list of general to-do's, take pics of unique hemi tooth/ ask fossil forum (along w/ mystery carnivore tooth), start attempting chimera assemblages/ Hemi jaw reconstructions (remember to photograph both lignual and labial views, maybe leave some in suspension mounts if great enough),