Dolphin: Spy In The Pod Analysis

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Dolphin: Spy in the Pod Come discover the amazing world of dolphins in this factual film by Robert Pilley, Mathew Gordon, John Downer and narrated by David Tennant. See up close footage of several different species of dolphins behavior and the unique cameras used to capture them. Would you like to know about how dolphins jump, how long a baby stay with its mother. How about how they communicate, mating rituals, and hunt. Join the nautilus, spy turtle, spy dolphin, spy tuna, and spy ray on their jet propulsion journey as the newest camera robots in the ocean. Spy turtle follows the bottlenose dolphins around Mozambique beach as we run into a giant clam containing the nautilus that have a high definition camera in their eyes. This gives the robots sight and henceforth leans into personification giving a nonliving object a human trait. We see a baby bottlenose dolphin that still has wrinkles from being in the womb and it is noted that he is five days old. He needs to breathe every two minutes at the surface of the water. The older he gets the longer he can hold his breathe. Throughout this episode this baby dolphin grows up and goes on a journey relating well to the literary device bidungsroman. As it comes to show spy turtle has found the male bottlenose dolphins and is watching them intently. As he chases after …show more content…
Casting themselves from the water into the sky in a massive leap spinning themselves up into the air as they come falling back into the ocean in a glorious leap. As spy dolphin sees the surface just under the surface tuna spy can see how they start their leaps by beating their tails really quick and powerful muscles are used for jumping. Spy tuna sees hundreds of dolphins during the time under the water, making this a super pod that will eventually become a mega pod when more and more dolphins join

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