Skeleton Coast

Planet Earth III episode 1 – Coasts – Sir David Attenborough delves into the perilous environments forged by global coastlines, a realm where fauna grapple with the ceaseless dynamics of nature for survival. In the Robberg Peninsula of South Africa, an assemblage of Cape fur seals populate a constricted shelf of land. A fledgling seal ventures into aquatic terrains, undergoing a transformative metamorphosis from awkward to agile. This marine ecosystem has, in recent years, witnessed a surge in the presence of great white sharks, requiring collective action from the seal colony to stave off this apex predator.     The […]