CUTTLEFISH DON T LOOK LIKE MUCH MORE THAN STRETCHED OUT OCTOPUSES BUT THEY HAVE SOME PRETTY SPECIAL
CONTENTS ANIMALS IN THE SEA UNDERSEA BRAINBOXES SLICK COMMUNICATORS DETECTOR POWER SUPER SENSES SMART SURVIVORS ESCAPE ARTISTS DECOY DIVAS AND DEEP CUNNING KILLERS OF THE DEEP MAKING ALLIES TOOL USERS THE BEST OF THE BEST SPECIAL SKILLS INDEX
ANIMALS IN THE SEA Nearly all animals are very good at what they were born to do far better than humans And they have special skills and characteristics that help them to survive This book introduces you to some of the cleverest and best adapted sea creatures Here's a taste of how amazing sea creatures are before we even get on to the really clever stuff SPRINTERS The fastest creature in the sea is the black marlin left A marlin can shoot through the water at 80 miles per hour 130 kilometers per hour Scientists gauge this by how quickly it unravels a fishing line It also travels extraordinary distances One that was tagged in California was later found 10 000 miles 16 000 km away in New Zealand I HIGH JUMP Salmon below spend most of their lives in the sea but they save their best jumping for when they head upriver to breed Salmon can leap I up waterfalls 12 feet 3 65 meters high that s about six times their own
LONG JUMP Flying fish right can leap out of the water and glide through the air for more than 160 feet so m Occasionally they travel 1 300 feet 400 m It is thought they do this to escape their many predators Their large winglike fins get them airborne and they are carried along by winds and air currents ALL ROUNDER Dolphins are the freestyle champions of the animal world They can leap 20 feet 6 m out of the water and swim 33 miles per hour 54 km h They can also do all kinds of acrobatic twists and turns and balance a ball on their nose while swimming backward And they do it on porpoise POWERHOUSES The strongest creature in the sea is the blue whale right which can shift its huge weight usually around 10 tons 100 tonnes along at over 20 miles per hour 30 km h It can keep this up for long
