1. Rock Pools
Brett Westwood and Phil Gates begin their guide with the creatures you鈥檙e most likely to find in rock pools. From 2016.
What looks like a sponge, smells like a volcano and is found in rock pools?
The answer can be found in this series of programmes in which Brett Westwood joins naturalist Phil Gates on the coast of Northumberland.
With recordings by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, they offer a practical and entertaining guide to the wildlife which you鈥檙e most likely to see and hear in different coastal habitats - beginning with probably everyone鈥檚 favourite childhood haunt, the rock pool.
成人快手 to shore crabs and hermit crabs, as well as sea anemones, breadcrumb sponges and sea squirts.
We learn how sea squirts which appear to be little more than bags of fluid clinging to the rocks, might be our evolutionary ancestors. We discover how when it comes to building, it鈥檚 the breadcrumb sponges which have mastered the art with some clever self-assembly scaffolding tricks.
Producer: Sarah Blunt
First broadcast on 成人快手 Radio 4 in March 2016.
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