“Ocean Wonders: Encountering Sea Monsters” & “Oceans in Glass” DVD

Description

A double program! The first program reveals the biology of cephalopods, and the second explains the engineering of the famous Monterey Bay Aquarium. “Encountering Sea Monsters” shows the behavior and structure of several species of squid, cuttlefish, and octopus from the large and aggressive Humboldt squid to the small and deadly blue-ringed octopus. Topics include intelligence, feeding, reproduction, and camouflage. An award-winning Nature production. (40 minutes, 2006). “Oceans in Glass” takes you behind the scenes of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, recognized as one of the most significant and spectacular aquariums in the world. If you have a marine aquarium in your classroom, your students will better appreciate the complexity of maintaining millions of gallons of seawater, exchanging daily with the open ocean, to support 35,000 animals and plants for the education and entertainment of millions of visitors. A sideline in this program shows the effort to catch, maintain and display for a record length of time, and then release, a great white shark. (40 minutes, 2006).