People often say we don't know much about what's going on in the ocean, but that's not true anymore. While there's still much that needs to be explored, researchers have made many very important discoveries which are not receiving the attention they deserve.
Would you like to find out what is really going on under the sea-how the strange creatures down there live, behave, and interact with each other? This book reveals that and more. The author strove to select information that the casual reader would find interesting, while trying to answer your questions before they arise, imparting useful knowledge, and sharing the beauty and wonder of the coast, starting close to home and moving out into the deep.
One of two companion books, this examines life in the ocean, across the surface, in the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, the midnight zone, the abyss, the trenches, on submarine mountains, and on chimneys. It also features:
- Dangers at sea, storms, and ghost ships
- Whale and dolphin societies, cultures, and communication
- Shark and killer whale hunting techniques and social events
- Advanced and varied weaponry
- The many types of defensive tactics, including cutting off their own head as a distraction
- Different types of animals teaming up and working together
- Fish forming hunting partnerships with octopuses or huge moray eels
- Creatures that glow in the dark
- Transformers
- Creatures that are colonies
- Animals that live hundreds or thousands of years-some potentially immortal
- Bobbit worms, pigbutt worms, sea pigs, and the headless chicken monster
- Creatures that come ashore
- And so much more
