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[thudding]
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[gentle music playing]
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[fluttering]
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[narrator] Imagine you're cast at birth
into a galaxy of tiny drifting creatures.
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A speck lost in the ocean.
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You never met your mother or father.
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You have no one to show you
where to go or what to do.
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That's how life begins
for this little sharpnose pufferfish.
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We'll call him Puff.
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Just a couple of months old,
he's smaller than a fingernail.
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Adrift in the ocean,
headed for an uncertain future.
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This is Puff's world.
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A vibrant coral reef,
home to thousands of creatures.
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But to see what Puff sees,
you have to look closer.
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Even closer.
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Because the story of every coral reef
starts with its tiniest creatures.
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For the first time, we have opened
a window to their incredible micro-verse.
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A world where drama unfolds
on scales too small…
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too fast…
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or too slow for the human eye to perceive.
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And from Puff's tiny point of view,
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it must seem almost magical.
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The reef as we've never seen it before.
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[soft piano playing]
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{\an8}[whimsical music playing]
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[narrator] To the naked eye,
{\an8}the open ocean may seem lifeless,
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{\an8}but when you look closer,
billions of tiny creatures are revealed.
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{\an8}Some so minute
that hundreds of individuals
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{\an8}would fit in a single drop of water.
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This is where Puff
begins his life journey.
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He hatched from an egg on the reef
and drifted with the current out to sea,
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to feed on tiny plankton.
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This is how many reef fish
begin their lives.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[narrator] But within months,
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these microscopic morsels
are no longer enough to sustain him.
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He needs to find bigger things to eat.
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And that poses a problem
as big as the ocean.
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How will Puff find his way back
to the reef?
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Something amazing happens when lots
of creatures gather in the same place.
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Crowds make noise,
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and a coral reef is a busy place.
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Sound can travel for miles underwater.
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All Puff has to do is listen.
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Most of what you see
here is built by animals
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smaller than the tip of your finger.
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Thousands of lives
and millions of stories are unfolding.
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Don't believe me?
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Try looking from Puff's perspective.
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The smallest of these animals
are no larger than a grain of sand.
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[ethereal music playing]
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[narrator] Puff's new world
is a micro-verse of tiny creatures
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that live their lives
unnoticed by giants like us.
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[unsettling music plays]
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[muffled breathing]
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[narrator] At around three months of age,
Puff is only the size of a jellybean.
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That's not just daunting,
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it's dangerous.
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Fortunately for Puff, he has
an ingenious way of defending himself.
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He's toxic.
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And he comes with a warning label.
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The markings on his body say,
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"Eat me, and you'll regret it."
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But being poisonous
doesn't make him invincible.
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And nearby, a predator lurks.
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A lionfish.
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This ferocious hunter's dazzling fins
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are perfect for herding small prey
into tight spots.
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[unsettling music playing]
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[soft music playing]
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[narrator] Most young reef fish
don't survive their first year of life.
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Luckily for Puff,
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the coral creates a maze
of tiny passageways
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where a baby fish can hide for the night.
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Out of sight,
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and off the menu.
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As Puff sleeps, the foundations
of his world begin to stir.
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[narrator] Every year,
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the moon, the tides,
and the water temperature
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all signal to billions of corals
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that tonight is the night
to cast the young to the sea.
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At the mouths of tiny coral polyps,
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minuscule bundles
of eggs and sperm appear.
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In near perfect synchronicity,
they lift off…
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and journey to the surface.
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The bundles drift with the current
and mix with the spawn
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of thousands of other coral colonies.
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If among the billions of eggs
released tonight
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one should meet its match…
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something extraordinary happens.
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A microscopic larva forms,
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a barely visible creature
on a quest to build a new coral colony.
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It drifts for days
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until it hears the call of the reef.
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And dives,
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braving a minefield
of predators and traps.
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[sinister music playing]
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[narrator]
When you're the size of a speck,
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a three-centimeter-long shrimp
can be monstrous.
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[eerie music playing]
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[narrator] On the reef, the larva searches
for a perfect place to make its home.
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When it finds the right spot,
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it transforms
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from a free-swimming larva
into a young coral.
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As it grows,
its skeleton forms part of the reef.
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With the help
of other tiny construction workers,
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the corals build living structures
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that create homes
for countless other creatures.
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It takes hundreds,
sometimes thousands of years,
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for generations of tiny reef-builders
to construct Puff's coral metropolis.
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Inside his reef hiding place,
Puff is safe for now.
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But he needs to brave the predators
and head out to find food.
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And once again, the corals help out.
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Because corals produce energy
that feeds the animals of the reef.
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It all starts with single-celled,
plant-like creatures
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living within the corals,
the zooxanthellae.
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Don't let that big name fool you.
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Everything here, really small.
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These little guys
are the coral's life partners,
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harvesting energy from sunlight
to feed their coral hosts.
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And as the corals grow and thrive,
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they share their energy
with the rest of the reef.
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Some creatures consume the energy directly
by eating the coral.
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This baby crown-of-thorns starfish
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uses tiny eyespots on the end
of each arm to locate coral colonies.
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A keen sense of underwater smell
helps it find the right species.
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And it devours the coral polyps,
leaving a scar on the reef.
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Not all inhabitants
feed on the coral directly.
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If they did,
they'd soon demolish their reef city.
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Fortunately, there's another way
corals supply food.
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They do it with slime.
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Corals shed mucus too fine
for creatures like Puff to eat,
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but an ancient group of organisms
makes sure this energy is not lost.
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Sponges.
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To the naked eye,
they may appear motionless,
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but if you speed up time,
their vital role in the reef is revealed.
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Sponges pump huge volumes of water
through their bodies,
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filtering out the coral mucus
and using the energy to grow.
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[soft music playing]
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[narrator] After they've had their fill,
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the sponges concentrate organic waste
on their surfaces,
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creating a bite-sized buffet
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for tiny creatures to feed on.
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And those animals
are eaten by slightly bigger creatures.
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Oh no. No, no, no. Just slightly bigger?
No, that's… That's way too big.
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That's huge. That's massive.
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This… yes.
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That's better.
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Some of the recycled sponge food
also washes up the water column
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where it's captured and consumed
by filter feeders.
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Like the Christmas tree worm.
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Easily the most festive worm of the sea.
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[mellow music playing]
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[narrator]
This almond-sized porcelain crab
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uses feathery claws
to capture tiny particles of food
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from the water.
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Down here,
every surface is covered with life.
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Nothing goes to waste.
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On the back of a sea snail
the size of an olive,
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even smaller creatures make their home.
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Without these little creatures recycling
the energy captured by the corals,
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the larger ones would have nothing to eat.
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Life on the reef is dependent on
thousands of creatures working together,
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each with a vital role to play.
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[whimsical music playing]
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[narrator] Puff is perfectly adapted
to hunt in this tiny world.
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But the grim fact is,
most things that eat can also be eaten.
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Not all corals are harmless.
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Some are predators…
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their tentacles covered in deadly cells
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that harpoon
and paralyze speck-sized prey.
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[ominous music playing]
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[ominous music intensifies]
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[narrator] If he's going to survive
the depths of the reef,
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Puff must learn all the secrets
of its dark recesses.
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Some alleyways
are more treacherous than others.
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[sinister music playing]
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[narrator] This anglerfish
is about as long as your thumb.
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A giant in this micro world.
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[mellow music playing]
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[ominous music playing]
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[vibrant music playing]
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[narrator] Puff's discovered
his pufferfish superpower.
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He can blow up like a balloon
in a fraction of a second,
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a trick that has just saved his life.
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Being one of the smallest fish on the reef
means Puff is in constant danger.
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[unsettling music plays]
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[narrator] His superpower may keep
predators at bay for a while,
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but other forces are beyond his control.
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[thunder rumbling]
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[thunder cracking]
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[narrator] Above the waves, a storm brews
in a world that Puff can never know.
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Its brutal force delves deep
into the ocean.
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[swishing]
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[muffled thunder rumbling]
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[eerie music playing]
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[narrator] Despite its abundance of food,
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the reef remains a treacherous place
for a baby fish.
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Instinct tells him there may be
safer waters beyond the coral metropolis.
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But to find this haven,
he must cross a strange, new world.
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The sand flats.
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Among the sand grains,
it's every crab for herself.
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[mellow music playing]
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[narrator] The plains are home to
creatures that scavenge, sift, and burrow.
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[narrator] Out here,
it's a fish-eat-brittle-star world.
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In the dunes,
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Puff finds a mollusk hauling its shell
through a garden of walking dendros.
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These walnut-sized corals
live on the sand,
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absorbing sunlight
and feeding on tiny creatures.
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But it isn't all sun-baking and snacks.
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They're in constant danger
of being toppled or buried alive.
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A death sentence
for a coral that needs sunlight.
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But sometimes help comes
from unexpected places.
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Like, really unexpected places.
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In this case, from a wormhole.
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[ominous music playing]
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[narrator] The peanut worm lives in a hole
in the base of the dendro.
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The worm keeps its coral landlord upright.
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In return, the dendro offers protection
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as its slippery tenant
scours the sand for food,
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towing its coral caravan along
for the ride.
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There are no small roles here,
only small organisms.
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The journey across the sand flats
may not be a great distance,
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but for a baby fish, it's an odyssey.
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Out here, there's nowhere to hide
and not much to eat.
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Just when it seems like the sand
might go on forever,
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an oasis appears on the horizon.
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A labyrinth of mangrove roots,
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pockets and passageways with plenty to eat
and fewer ways to be eaten.
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[ethereal music playing]
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[narrator] The ideal place
for a thumbnail-sized fish to feed,
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grow, and perfect the skills
he'll need to survive.
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He's not the only one
to have made this pilgrimage.
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The shallows are a haven
for all kinds of baby reef fish.
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Puff has found his fish nursery.
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Things are looking up.
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It's been days since his last proper meal.
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He's so hungry he could eat a horse.
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Or maybe not.
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But he does need to find food, and fast.
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Watching how the locals do it
could help him.
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[whimsical music playing]
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[narrator] Pinky-sized seahorses
are expert hunters in this tiny world.
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They target crustaceans
smaller than a grain of rice.
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These tiny grazers
spend their time munching on algae
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and microscopic animals in the seagrass.
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They play an essential role
in the food web here.
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A link between the plants
and larger creatures like Puff.
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[celestial music playing]
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[soft music playing]
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[munching]
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[narrator] In the meadows of the lagoon,
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algae and seagrasses
harvest energy from the sun.
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Supplying food for the community
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as well as producing oxygen
for the rest of the planet.
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It's a big job for these tiny plants.
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Seagrass flowers
are smaller than dandelions.
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And they attract swarms
of the tiny crustaceans
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that Puff and the seahorses love to eat.
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Like these, the crustaceans
can carry pollen from flower to flower.
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[celestial music playing]
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[narrator] The lagoon is a cosmos
of worlds within worlds.
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The closer you look, the more you find.
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On a blade of seagrass,
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a microscopic entoproct
rolls the contents of its tiny stomach.
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Very little is known about this world.
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It's just too small.
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[mellow music playing]
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[chewing]
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[narrator] After six months
in the shallows,
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Puff is now an adolescent.
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And he's eating like one.
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[whimsical music playing]
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[narrator] He's quadrupled in size.
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And his confidence is growing.
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But he can't let his guard down.
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Even this idyllic nursery
has ambush predators.
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This scorpion fish
is perfectly camouflaged,
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waiting for unsuspecting victims
to cruise by.
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[sinister music playing]
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[narrator] But sometimes,
the camouflage can backfire.
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The lagoon is a network of relationships.
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Everywhere you look,
tiny stories are unfolding.
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[celestial music playing]
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[narrator] This guard crab doesn't like
baby fish taking bites out of his home.
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And he's not gonna put up with any trouble
from a grape-sized butterfly fish.
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[ominous music playing]
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[narrator] Just when he thought
his work was done,
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a hermit decides to trample his polyps.
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And clearly, that's not okay.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[thuds]
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[thuds]
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[narrator] A crab might look tough
when he's dispatching intruders,
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but without his coral refuge,
he, too, could end up as someone's dinner.
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The crab needs its coral
as much as the coral needs its crab.
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Every creature is dependent on others
for its survival.
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[soft music playing]
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[narrator] Little Puff has grown
to the size of a human thumb.
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Just over two inches long,
and he's finally outgrown this nursery.
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Now that he's bigger, the abundant food
back at the reef seems more attractive.
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He'll have to cross the sand flats again.
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But this time,
Puff sets out as a young adult
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in search of his forever home.
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[unsettling music plays]
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[narrator] Early into the crossing,
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Puff comes across a blind zombie snail
sniffing out its next meal.
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Tiny scavengers like him
are the ocean's clean-up crew.
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It's a dirty job,
but someone's got to do it.
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Nearby, a predatory cone snail
is on the hunt.
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And he catches the scent
of a zombie snail on the current.
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[suspenseful music playing]
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[narrator] A low-speed chase begins.
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Like a lion hunting a gazelle
on the African plains,
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the action is thrilling.
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Not really, but it's pretty exciting
when you speed it up.
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Out here, you can run,
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but you can't hide.
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Not from a cone snail's
highly-developed sense of smell.
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[suspenseful music intensifies]
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[suspenseful music calms down]
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[suspenseful music rushes]
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[hissing]
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[narrator] The cone snail dispatches
the zombie with a venomous harpoon.
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Ruthless.
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[ethereal music playing]
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[narrator] It's a snail-eat-snail world,
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but Puff is learning to take
all the murder and mayhem in his stride.
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And right now, he's more concerned
with grabbing fast food
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on the long journey back to the reef.
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[fluttering]
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[narrator] As Puff approaches the reef,
he finds a changed world.
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Strange colors signal
that the corals are suffering.
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The water temperature
is well above their comfort zone.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[narrator] Within the corals,
the zooxanthellae are stressed,
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and the corals start to expel them.
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Without their little life partners
supplying food,
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they begin to bleach and starve.
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[ominous music playing]
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[narrator] The corals are dying.
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[fluttering]
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[somber music playing]
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[narrator] Puff's underwater metropolis,
constructed over thousands of years,
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is reduced to rubble by a warming ocean.
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Many of our planet's coral reefs
are already in this catastrophic state.
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Every year, the collapse continues.
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Unless we change
the way we do things in our world,
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Puff's world will cease to exist.
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This was supposed to be
journey's end for Puff,
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but he can't stay here.
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He'll have to move on
in search of a healthy reef to call home.
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[soft piano playing]
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[narrator] At around two years of age,
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Puff is now ten times longer
than when he first arrived on the reef.
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About the size of the palm of your hand.
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It's that time of year again,
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when the cycles of the moon
and the temperature of the water
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trigger the reproductive systems
of billions of corals
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on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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[vibrant music playing]
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[narrator] What starts as a trickle
soon floods the sea with hope.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[narrator] A new generation
sets off to repair,
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restore, and create new coral reefs.
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On the same night, thousands of other
reef creatures join the mass spawning.
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It's the biggest reproductive event
on Earth.
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With a little luck, some of these
microscopic heroes will drift to a place
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where the fish are healthy,
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the water is clean,
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and the temperature is just right.
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If they do, they may,
against incredible odds,
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complete their vital mission…
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to build and maintain
the largest living structure on Earth.
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Puff has finally found his happy place,
a healthy coral reef.
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[uplifting music playing]
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[narrator] Now that he's bigger
and more confident,
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old enemies that once bullied him
steer clear.
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[ominous music playing]
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[narrator] Yeah, keep swimming, lionfish.
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Just keep swimming.
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All grown up,
Puff will soon find a territory,
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an area he will get to know
like the back of his fin.
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And he'll defend it
from other male pufferfish,
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in the hope that someday
he might find a mate.
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[ethereal music playing]
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[soft music playing]
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[narrator] Puff and his mate
could live for almost a decade.
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One day, their young
will be cast into the ocean
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to play a vital role
in this wonderful ecosystem.
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And they'll have some big shoes to fill.
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Our window to this micro world
has only just opened.
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Its tiny creatures
are revealing themselves
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to be intelligent and complex
beyond our imagining.
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There are still places to swim
with sharpnose pufferfish,
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camouflaged monsters, and colorful corals.
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These extraordinary little beings
are doing all they can
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to maintain their fragile world.
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The rest is up to us.
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["Let Yourself Be Free" playing]
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♪ What do you feel ♪
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♪ I gotta know ♪
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♪ I gotta know ♪
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♪ Whatever it is ♪
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♪ You should let it go ♪
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♪ Let it go ♪
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♪ Dance when you wanna dance ♪
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♪ Sing when you wanna sing ♪
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00:56:43,791 --> 00:56:45,833
♪ Live how you wanna live ♪
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00:56:46,416 --> 00:56:48,041
♪ Let yourself be free ♪
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00:56:48,916 --> 00:56:50,916
♪ Dance when you wanna dance ♪
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♪ Sing when you wanna sing ♪
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00:56:53,833 --> 00:56:55,625
♪ Live how you wanna live ♪
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♪ Let yourself be free ♪
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♪ Can't nobody ♪
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00:57:01,500 --> 00:57:03,250
♪ Turn me around ♪
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♪ Can't nobody ♪
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{\an8}♪ Slow me down ♪
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{\an8}♪ I got this feeling way down in my soul ♪
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♪ Gotta hold of me
And it just won't let me go ♪
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♪ Dance when you wanna dance ♪
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00:57:29,875 --> 00:57:32,166
♪ Sing when you wanna sing ♪
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00:57:32,791 --> 00:57:34,750
♪ Live how you wanna live ♪
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00:57:35,250 --> 00:57:37,250
♪ Let yourself be free ♪
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00:57:38,208 --> 00:57:40,125
♪ Dance when you wanna dance ♪
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00:57:40,208 --> 00:57:42,416
♪ Sing when you wanna sing ♪
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♪ Live how you wanna live ♪
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♪ Let yourself be free ♪
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♪ Dance when you wanna dance ♪
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♪ Sing when you wanna sing ♪
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♪ Let yourself be free ♪