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Ducks Diving for Mussels | Planet Earth | BBC Earth

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In the Arctic circle, ducks take advantage of permanent holes in the sea ice, fighting the fierce ocean currents to dive 10 metres down and reach the rich layer of mussels that populate the sea floor. Beautiful underwater filming from BBC natural history masterpiece, Planet Earth.

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i just saw a puffin swimming underwater

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A classic

@thelordandsaviorgigachadrr888

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The way a duck hunts is first they land on the water. Then they do a nose dive. There might be new boats (new tech) not available yet capable of maneuvering a duck dive to attack submersibles. When the duck isn’t diving his bottom half is in the air with legs sticking up. New tech might appear as a boat but have a duck foraging for food underneath. A is the nature of the duck. Possible new tech might not be designed to attack submersibles but to retrieve. Like the duck the new might be able to only retrieve in certain parts of bodies of water in comparison to where there is constant sustainable resource throughout cycles. The moon cycles etc affect the gravity of the oceans. Keeping in mind that these correlations can easily help other countries defensive improve.

@ImArchangelMichael

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Thanks for this video. Which species is this?

@franka7691

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i love how they float back in the surface without moving, this like the soul lifts up to heaven 😂😂

@ninav.1712

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Ducks are so supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

@kelvinmark696

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Anyone who says they don't like ducks is not to be trusted.

@KatieWilliams1990x

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I love 💕 sea 🌊 ducks 🦆

@isaiahfernandez9861

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Give it a couple million years and we will have a new species of penguins.

@johndextersantos9541

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CANARD moule couac

COUAC

@safyahilali5314

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These are the original NAVY SEAL

@emmanmiclat7839

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I just saw some ducks diving in a lake and was really confused at first

@TonyStark-mp6zv

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Ducks and geese are the few animals I know that can do air, land, and sea. How cool is that?

@GH-xy4zz

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Back then I have a cute duck as my pet 💙😃

@cecilliorelucio6695

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Ducks are so cute and amazing 💙😃

@cecilliorelucio6695

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Love ducks.

@WindriderDelta

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There are permanent holes in the ice? No matter how cold it gets they don’t freeze? Ya global warming is a damn lie, any colder and those holes would freeze

@Alberta1stPodcast

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I'm 27 years old and only now coming to realize how EPIC and ICONIC ducks are.

@ryan.engstrom

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No narrator can beat Sir David Attenborough.

@jamilashenq1720

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Nature Freediver

@TresnaSahabakti

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i love ducks

@julz9378

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I came here because of dragons..
Now i get what OP was saying

@Saccillia

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I love this narrator

@jacktonzola4115

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common eider ducks

@jacktonzola4115

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Wooosh

@thegoshdarnedbatman5257

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poor fox

@mrila-x3e

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look my fweinds

@meowthchu7307

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Love this

@pietromanca9490

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Some of his best stuff.

@ErichoTTA

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the seabed is building all KINDS of mussel!

@SinisterSkip

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sad arctic fox: ( T _ T ) I can't dive.

@poppyorangeflower

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Ahaha! Oh! Thanks! =D

@74kyB

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How is it they float up like rockets? If I did that in the water, I'll kinda float up half way from the pool floor and kinda get stuck mid way, unless I kick/paddle. How do they do that?

@74kyB

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osom

@paborooti

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WOW! Amazing!
Please BBC.. We want to watch these videos in HD.

@AZM55555

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BBC, i am just curious.. why dont you upload all videos as HD?

@ptezso

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The Icefox is beautiful ^-^

@Schienenbussprinter

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OMG so cute the way they float up!

@SaelPalani

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lol!

@BananaOmNom

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DAFUQ! xD I mean ... DAFUQ ... attenborough ... And why did I write that ... !!!

@Itsallgoodtogo

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O.0 ... You are my waifu!

@Itsallgoodtogo

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Attenborough is mai waifu

@Rocker742

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I like ducklings!

@xijnnijx

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cute :)

@0loveI0music

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should make it longer

@elAfreet

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It's a Ducklear Attack :p

@Angonilda

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