Sea Animals

Sea Animals is one of the ten direct-to-video programmes produced by Dorling Kindersley Vision as part of the See How They Grow series. It was one of the later five programmes, released on VHS on 19th November 1995. This programme looks at the life-cycles of four animals from marine habitats.

## Sections (incomplete)

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## Species list, in order of appearance

### Filmed in studio (or aquarium):

The section each species appears in are bracketed (this list is from the shorter American version, so may not be the complete species list):

* Tope shark, *Galeorhinus galeus* (Ray)
* Loggerhead sea turtle, *Caretta caretta* (Ray)
* Thornback ray, *Raja clavata* (Ray, Hermit Crab)
* Undulate ray, *Raja undulata* (Ray)
* Brill, *Scophthalmus rhombus* (Ray)
* Tub gurnard, *Trigla lucerna* (Ray, Hermit Crab)
* Starry smooth-hound, *Mustelus asterias* (Ray)
* Nursehound, *Scyliorhinus stellaris* (Ray)
* Common cuttlefish, *Sepia officinalis* (Ray, Pipefish, Cuttlefish)
* Peacock worm, *Sabella pavonina* (Ray, Pipefish)
* Snakelocks anemone, *Anemonia viridis* (Pipefish)
* Greater pipefish, *Syngnathus acus* (Pipefish)
* Lined seahorse, *Hippocampus erectus* (Pipefish)
* Common prawn, *Palaemon serratus* (Pipefish, Cuttlefish, Hermit Crab)
* Great scallop, *Pecten maximus* (Pipefish)
* Curled octopus, *Eledone cirrhosa* (Cuttlefish)
* Lumpsucker, *Cyclopterus lumpus* (Cuttlefish)
* Pouting, *Trisopterus luscus* (Cuttlefish)
* Gilt-head bream, *Sparus aurata* (Cuttlefish)
* Common limpet, *Patella vulgata* (Hermit Crab)
* Striped red mullet, *Mullus surmuletus* (Hermit Crab)
* Thinstripe hermit crab, *Clibanarius vittatus* (Hermit Crab)
* Common hermit crab, *Pagurus bernhardus* (Hermit Crab)
* European lobster, *Homarus gammarus* (Hermit Crab)

## Appearances in other DK Vision media

A clip of cuttlefish changing colour and of two adult pipefish mimicking seaweed was used in the episode Animal Disguises of Amazing Animals Series One.

A clip of the cuttlefish changing colour was one of thirty pieces of footage used in the Animal Movies section of the Amazing Animals Activity Centre PC game.

A clip of the rays was used as a video clip in the Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Nature 1.0 (unrelated to the Eyewitness television series).

## Home media releases

The UK VHS release of Sea Animals shows a common hermit crab standing on broken shells at the bottom of the cover, with a sprig of sea lettuce behind it. A common cuttlefish is to the above-left of the hermit crab but in front of the sea lettuce, while a spotted ray on the top-right of the cover. Two mirrored pipefish are on either side of the title. Above the 'See How They Grow' logo is an artwork showing a hermit crab and a cuttlefish among seaweed, while a pipefish and another hermit crab within seaweed is the artwork at the bottom of the cover.

In the Sony Wonder VHS release, the hermit crab, cuttlefish, spotted ray and sea lettuce are all in the same positions. A single pipefish is now in the middle of the cover, below the title. The bottom artwork is missing, while the artwork above the title remains the same.

Sea Animals has also been released in multi-episode formats. In the USA, Sea Animals was part of a Volume Two release that also combined Desert Animals, Wild Animals and Jungle Animals.