WEBVTT 00:04.267 --> 00:07.033 align:start MAJOR FUNDING FOR THE DESERT SPEAKS HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY 00:07.133 --> 00:10.534 align:start ASARCO, INC., AN INTEGRATED PRODUCER OF NONFERROUS 00:10.634 --> 00:13.534 align:start METALS AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS. 00:13.634 --> 00:19.400 align:start ASARCO, INC., ADDING VALUE TO NATURE'S RESOURCES. 00:19.501 --> 00:51.434 align:start [MUSIC/NATURE SOUNDS] 00:51.534 --> 00:53.667 align:start STANDING HERE AND AND LOOKING WEST DOESN'T EXACTLY MAKE YOU 00:53.767 --> 00:56.334 align:start THINK OF THE DESERT. I WOULDN'T KID YOU. 00:56.434 --> 01:02.033 align:start ANYTHING THAT FEELS THIS WET AND LOOKS AND SMELLS 01:02.133 --> 01:03.567 align:start LIKE THE OCEAN, PROBABLY IS. 01:03.667 --> 01:06.000 align:start THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA HERE AT PUERTO PEÑASCO IS 01:06.100 --> 01:08.400 align:start GOOD FOR AT LEAST SIXTY MILES OF OCEAN STRAIGHT OUT OR TO 01:08.501 --> 01:11.701 align:start THE NORTH AND THEN WE'RE BACK AT THE EDGE OF THE DESERT AGAIN. 01:11.801 --> 01:14.701 align:start BUT IT'S NOT REALLY UNUSUAL FOR DESERTS 01:14.801 --> 01:16.701 align:start TO HAVE WATER ON THEIR EDGES. IT'S NOT 01:16.801 --> 01:19.734 align:start THAT WATER THAT MAKES THE DESERTS, IT'S HOW MUCH 01:19.834 --> 01:22.400 align:start WATER'S IN THE AIR AND ON THE LAND. 01:22.501 --> 01:26.667 align:start WATER ANYWHERE MEANS LIFE, 01:26.767 --> 01:28.934 align:start AS WE KEEP SAYING IN THIS DRY COUNTRY. 01:29.033 --> 01:32.234 align:start SO THESE WET EDGES ARE PRETTY LIVELY PARTS OF THE 01:32.334 --> 01:35.801 align:start DESERT AND NOTHING MAKES THAT POINT BETTER AROUND 01:35.901 --> 01:38.000 align:start HERE THAN THE CREATURES THAT EASILY NAVIGATE BOTH 01:38.100 --> 01:40.534 align:start LAND AND WATER - THE SHORE BIRDS. 01:40.634 --> 01:47.734 align:start [SPLASHING/SEAGULLS CAWING] 01:47.834 --> 01:50.734 align:start IT'S QUITE A CROWD AND THE SAME AS WITH PEOPLE, YOU START TO 01:50.834 --> 01:54.934 align:start NOTICE INDIVIDUALS BETTER WHEN YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES. 01:55.033 --> 02:00.601 align:start DUNLINS, AND DOWITCHERS, WILLETS, MARBLED GODWITS. 02:00.701 --> 02:03.234 align:start ALL OF THEM AT WORK HERE ON MAIN STREET WITH 02:03.334 --> 02:07.200 align:start SANDPIPERS, TERNS, MORE THAN ONE TERN; 02:07.300 --> 02:11.000 align:start THERE'S CASPIAN TERNS AND LEAST TERNS. 02:11.100 --> 02:13.367 align:start EVERYBODY KNOWS SEAGULLS BUT THEY'RE NOT JUST GULLS 02:13.467 --> 02:16.534 align:start ONCE YOU HEAR THEM CALLED RING BILLED OR 02:16.634 --> 02:18.934 align:start YELLOW-FOOTED OR HEERMANN'S GULLS. 02:19.033 --> 02:22.467 align:start LONG TIME AGO, PEOPLE WERE NAMED FOR WHAT THEY DID, 02:22.567 --> 02:24.501 align:start LIKE THE BUTCHER AND THE BAKER. 02:24.601 --> 02:28.467 align:start WELL, HERE'S SOME OYSTER CATCHERS, TURN-STONES, SKIMMERS, 02:28.567 --> 02:32.634 align:start ON THE OTHER HAND, PROBABLY SHOULDN'T DRAW 02:32.734 --> 02:35.334 align:start ANY CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. 02:35.434 --> 02:39.100 align:start LOTS OF NAMES, LOTS OF FACES, 02:39.200 --> 02:40.801 align:start FOR HUNDREDS OF MILES ALONG THIS EDGE OF THE DESERT. 02:40.901 --> 02:44.267 align:start THE LONG NARROW GULF ALSO, CALLED THE SEA OF CORTEZ, 02:44.367 --> 02:47.734 align:start RUNS FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE MEXICAN 02:47.834 --> 02:50.534 align:start COAST RIGHT UP ALMOST TO THE U.S. 02:50.634 --> 02:56.434 align:start HERE ARE SOME AMERICAN AVOCETS DOWN NEAR GUAYMAS 02:56.534 --> 03:00.067 align:start AND EVEN A BURROWING OWL JUST YARDS FROM THE SURF. 03:00.167 --> 03:05.033 align:start MOST OF THE SHORE BIRDS YOU SEE ARE MIGRATORY; 03:05.133 --> 03:07.434 align:start THEY NEST UP IN THE ARCTIC, 03:07.534 --> 03:10.501 align:start BUT DURING THE WINTER TIME AND IN THEIR, 03:10.601 --> 03:16.300 align:start DURING MIGRATION THEY USE PLACES SUCH AS THE EDGE OF 03:16.400 --> 03:19.033 align:start THE SEA OF CORTEZ FOR FEEDING. 03:19.133 --> 03:22.467 align:start AND THERE ARE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS 03:22.567 --> 03:24.133 align:start OF BIRDS THAT USE THIS RESOURCE. 03:24.234 --> 03:30.667 align:start THE BIRDS OF THE SHORE LINE USE ALL KINDS OF 03:30.767 --> 03:32.934 align:start HABITATS ON THE SHORT LINE. 03:33.033 --> 03:38.200 align:start THERE ARE THOSE THAT FEED UP ON THE DRY SANDY 03:38.300 --> 03:40.968 align:start BEACHES, LIKE THE LITTLE SNOWY PLOVERS THAT RUN 03:41.067 --> 03:43.734 align:start AROUND AND CATCH THE LITTLE INSECTS ON THE BEACH. 03:43.834 --> 03:46.968 align:start THERE ARE THOSE THAT USE THE EXPOSED MUD FLATS AND 03:47.067 --> 03:51.300 align:start PROBE FOR INVERTEBRATES IN THE MUD. . . . 03:51.400 --> 03:58.234 align:start OR THOSE THAT USE THE TOPS OF THE MUD FLAT AND LOOK 03:58.334 --> 04:03.567 align:start FOR LITTLE INSECT LARVAE OR INSECTS RESTING ON THE SURFACE. 04:03.667 --> 04:13.501 align:start OTHER SPECIES MAY USE THE WATER EDGE, FOR INSTANCE, 04:13.601 --> 04:15.701 align:start A LITTLE SANDERLING CHASES THE WATER AS IT COMES IN 04:15.801 --> 04:20.634 align:start AND OUT, AS IT WASHES IN AND OUT. 04:20.734 --> 04:23.934 align:start AND THERE ARE OTHER SPECIES THAT PRETTY MUCH USE VERY 04:24.033 --> 04:27.567 align:start SHALLOW WATER, WALK AROUND AND PROBE IN THE WATER ITSELF. 04:27.667 --> 04:38.567 align:start THEN AS YOU GET FURTHER AWAY FROM THE SHORE LINE, 04:38.667 --> 04:40.767 align:start YOU'LL SEE OTHER TYPES OF BIRDS. 04:40.868 --> 04:43.501 align:start TERNS DIVING FOR FISHES THAT ARE VERY CLOSE TO THE 04:43.601 --> 04:52.834 align:start SURFACE, PELICANS DIVING FOR SCHOOLING FISH A 04:52.934 --> 04:55.133 align:start LITTLE BIT FURTHER BENEATH THE SURFACE, 04:55.234 --> 05:08.000 align:start [LOUD SPLASHING] 05:08.100 --> 05:14.367 align:start THEN BOOBIES THAT'LL DIVE DEEP FOR EVEN DEEPER FISHES. 05:14.467 --> 05:23.734 align:start DIFFERENT BIRDS ON THE SHORELINE THAT WILL FLY IN DIFFERENT WAYS. 05:23.834 --> 05:26.567 align:start THE FRIGATEBIRDS, FOR INSTANCE, CAN FLY ON 05:26.667 --> 05:29.300 align:start THE LIGHTEST OF BREEZES AND, IN FACT, 05:29.400 --> 05:31.100 align:start THEY NEVER ALIGHT ON THE WATER. 05:31.200 --> 05:38.901 align:start FOR MANY SPECIES IT'S, THEY FLOCK TOGETHER WITH 05:39.000 --> 05:41.767 align:start THEIR OWN KIND AND WHEN YOU'LL SEE A GROUP OF 05:41.868 --> 05:45.133 align:start BIRDS TAKE OFF, YOU'LL SEE ONE SPECIES IN ONE 05:45.234 --> 05:46.334 align:start LITTLE TIGHT LITTLE BUNCH, ANOTHER 05:46.434 --> 05:48.501 align:start SPECIES IN ANOTHER TIGHT LITTLE BUNCH. 05:48.601 --> 05:53.667 align:start BECAUSE BIRDS ARE SO VISUAL AND HAVE SUCH 05:53.767 --> 06:02.067 align:start QUICK, QUICK REFLEXES AND VERY GOOD COORDINATION, 06:02.167 --> 06:03.534 align:start THEY CAN MAINTAIN VERY TIGHT FLOCKS, 06:03.634 --> 06:06.067 align:start SOMETHING THAT LOOKS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO DO. 06:06.167 --> 06:08.300 align:start SEVERAL HUNDRED BIRDS CAN FLY TOGETHER IN VERY TIGHT 06:08.400 --> 06:10.234 align:start FORMATION, MAKE QUICK TURNS ALMOST IN UNISON 06:10.334 --> 06:13.801 align:start JUST BECAUSE OF THESE FEATURES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN BIRDS. 06:13.901 --> 06:20.334 align:start EACH OF THESE SPECIES OF SHORE BIRD IS DIFFERENT. 06:20.434 --> 06:24.667 align:start TO THE GENERAL, THE PERSON WHO GENERALLY WOULD LOOK AT THEM, 06:24.767 --> 06:27.167 align:start LOOKS LIKE JUST A BUNCH OF SMALL BIRDS WORKING THE SHORE LINE. 06:27.267 --> 06:29.601 align:start WHEN YOU LOOK UP CLOSE, THEY HAVE BEAKS OF 06:29.701 --> 06:33.901 align:start DIFFERENT SIZES AND DIFFERENT SHAPES. 06:34.000 --> 06:37.200 align:start THE FEET OF MANY OF THE SHORE BIRDS, 06:37.300 --> 06:39.534 align:start TYPICALLY THEY HAVE LONG TOES AND THEY'RE VERY 06:39.634 --> 06:42.467 align:start LIGHT-BODIED BIRDS AND SOME OF THEM EVEN HAVE A 06:42.567 --> 06:47.234 align:start LITTLE BIT OF WEBBING IN THE TOES. 06:47.334 --> 06:49.968 align:start THERE IS SOMEWHAT OF A PECKING ORDER AND, 06:50.067 --> 06:54.100 align:start BUT THE WAY THINGS ARE REALLY ORDERED IN THOSE 06:54.200 --> 06:59.334 align:start SORTS OF HABITATS HAS TO DO WITH THE DIFFERENT WAYS OF FEEDING. 06:59.434 --> 07:04.267 align:start AND THEN THEY ALSO DIVIDE UP THE LAND BY WHAT THEY EAT. 07:04.367 --> 07:06.567 align:start A CERTAIN HERON MAY EAT A CRAB. 07:06.667 --> 07:09.601 align:start FOR INSTANCE, THE YELLOW CROWN NIGHT HERON MAY EAT 07:09.701 --> 07:11.901 align:start A CRAB AND A LITTLE BLUE HERON MAY RUN ABOUT IN THE 07:12.000 --> 07:18.334 align:start WATER TRYING TO STAB LITTLE INVERTEBRATES THAT 07:18.434 --> 07:20.701 align:start ARE RUNNING ABOUT OR LITTLE FISHES. 07:20.801 --> 07:22.467 align:start AND THEN OTHERS, SUCH AS A GULL, 07:22.567 --> 07:25.934 align:start MAY FIND OLD CARRION, JUST A DEAD FISH LYING ON THE 07:26.033 --> 07:28.400 align:start SHORE THAT IT WOULD PICK APART AND EAT. 07:28.501 --> 07:32.400 align:start SO THERE'S A LOT OF ORDER ON THE SHORELINE AND SOME 07:32.501 --> 07:36.667 align:start OF IT'S BEHAVIORAL AND ECOLOGICAL AND THEY DIVIDE 07:36.767 --> 07:39.000 align:start UP THAT SHORELINE IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS. 07:39.100 --> 07:44.033 align:start THE CONTRAST HERE ON THE LINE BETWEEN THE WET AND THE 07:44.133 --> 07:47.400 align:start DRY IS EVEN MORE DRAMATIC THAN YOU MIGHT THINK. 07:47.501 --> 07:52.667 align:start TURN YOUR BACK ON THE GULF FOR VERY LONG AND IT CAN DISAPPEAR 07:52.767 --> 07:55.133 align:start ON YOU. THAT'S BECAUSE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 07:55.234 --> 07:57.734 align:start TIDAL HIGHS AND THE TIDAL LOWS UP IN THIS END OF THE 07:57.834 --> 08:01.067 align:start GULF IS ONE OF THE WIDEST IN THE WORLD. 08:01.167 --> 08:04.634 align:start AND ON THESE EXTRA SHALLOW BEACHES, 08:04.734 --> 08:06.801 align:start EVEN A LITTLE DIFFERENCE GOES A LONG WAY. 08:06.901 --> 08:12.734 align:start TIDES ARE CAUSED BY AT LEAST A DOZEN FACTORS, 08:12.834 --> 08:17.634 align:start BUT THE TWO MAIN ONES ARE THE SUN AND THE MOON, 08:17.734 --> 08:20.267 align:start MOSTLY THE MOON'S GRAVITATIONAL PULL. 08:20.367 --> 08:22.667 align:start EVERY DAY UP HERE IN THE NORTHERN GULF, 08:22.767 --> 08:26.567 align:start THERE ARE TWO TIDES AND THEY REACH THEIR EXTREMES 08:26.667 --> 08:28.901 align:start WHEN THE SUN, EARTH AND MOON ARE LINED UP, 08:29.000 --> 08:31.100 align:start DURING THE FULL MOON AND THE NEW MOON. 08:31.200 --> 08:36.667 align:start THE REASON FOR ALL THIS TALK ABOUT TIDES IS TIDEPOOLS. 08:36.767 --> 08:40.267 align:start THAT'S WHAT'S LEFT WHEN THE TIDE GOES OUT. 08:40.367 --> 08:43.267 align:start HERE WHERE THE DESERT SLIPS INTO THE WATER SO GRADUALLY IS 08:43.367 --> 08:47.200 align:start A WHOLE WORLD OF TIDEPOOLS AND SHALLOW WATER ANIMALS, 08:47.300 --> 08:51.968 align:start JUST AS ALIVE AND DIFFERENT AS THE BIRDS A FEW INCHES ABOVE. 08:52.067 --> 08:54.701 align:start THE NAMES HERE HELP TOO, IF YOU CAN KEEP UP WITH 08:54.801 --> 09:01.400 align:start FIDDLER CRABS AND PISTOL SHRIMP AND SULFUR-BELLIED 09:01.501 --> 09:04.133 align:start SEA CUCUMBERS AND A RELATIVE OF THE JELLYFISH 09:04.234 --> 09:06.367 align:start CALLED HYDROIDS WHO DELIVER A POISON 09:06.467 --> 09:09.334 align:start LIKE THE COBRAS, BUT IN SMALLER DOSES. 09:09.434 --> 09:17.934 align:start HERE WE ARE IN IN PUERTO PEÑASCO ON ONE OF 09:18.033 --> 09:20.734 align:start THE MOST AMAZING INNER TIDAL ZONES IN THE WORLD. 09:20.834 --> 09:24.801 align:start THE TIDES GO OUT; THEY DROP VERTICALLY 09:24.901 --> 09:30.701 align:start APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-FOUR FEET. HORIZONTAL DISTANCE 09:30.801 --> 09:33.567 align:start IT GOES OUT DEPENDS UPON THE SLOPE OF THE BEACH. 09:33.667 --> 09:35.767 align:start THERE ARE PLACES HERE IN PUERTO PEÑASCO AGAIN THAT 09:35.868 --> 09:37.501 align:start THE TIDE GOES OUT UP TO THREE MILES 09:37.601 --> 09:40.067 align:start BECAUSE IT'S A VERY GENTLY SLOPING BEACH. 09:40.167 --> 09:44.634 align:start THAT EXTREME RANGE IN TIDES IS SOMETHING THAT'S 09:44.734 --> 09:47.501 align:start FAIRLY UNIQUE IN THE WORLD. 09:47.601 --> 09:54.567 align:start IN PART IT'S CAUSED BY THE SHAPE OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA. 09:54.667 --> 09:56.400 align:start WE'RE IN A LONG, NARROW BASIN AND WE'RE AT THE 09:56.501 --> 09:58.234 align:start VERY TOP OF THAT BASIN SO THE TIDE FUNCTIONS SORT OF 09:58.334 --> 10:02.234 align:start LIKE A WAVE AND BECAUSE IT'S NARROW AND ENCLOSED, 10:02.334 --> 10:04.434 align:start WHEN THE WATER SLOSHES UP HERE IN THE NORTH, 10:04.534 --> 10:06.834 align:start IT SLOSHES UP REALLY HIGH AND THEN WHEN IT SLOSHES 10:06.934 --> 10:09.133 align:start DOWN, IT SLOSHES DOWN REALLY LOW SO WE GET THESE 10:09.234 --> 10:12.634 align:start EXTREME TIDES HERE IN THE NORTH. 10:12.734 --> 10:20.133 align:start OKAY, THE INNER TIDAL ZONE IS ACTUALLY A GRADIENT 10:20.234 --> 10:24.200 align:start BETWEEN THE DESERT AND THE OCEAN, 10:24.300 --> 10:29.400 align:start AND THE ANIMALS IN THE HIGHEST ZONES OF THE INNER 10:29.501 --> 10:33.267 align:start TIDAL ZONE ARE THOSE THAT ARE BETTER ADAPTED TO 10:33.367 --> 10:39.267 align:start DESERT CONDITION AND THOSE LIVING DOWN IN THE LOWER 10:39.367 --> 10:42.067 align:start ZONES ARE BETTER ADAPTED TO OCEAN CONDITIONS. 10:42.167 --> 10:45.100 align:start THIS LOW INNER TIDAL SAND BAR IS LIKE THE 10:45.200 --> 10:47.267 align:start RECYCLING CENTER OF THE INNER TIDAL. 10:47.367 --> 10:49.100 align:start ALL THE FINE PARTICLES OF ORGANIC 10:49.200 --> 10:51.267 align:start MATTER COLLECT HERE IN THE SAND AND THE WORMS 10:51.367 --> 10:55.133 align:start AND THE RECYCLERS LIVE HERE IN THIS ZONE. 10:55.234 --> 11:02.167 align:start THIS IS A CEPHALOCHORDATE WHICH IS A LINK OR A 11:02.267 --> 11:04.801 align:start STEPPING STONE TO THE CHORDATES AND THE VERTEBRATES, 11:04.901 --> 11:10.033 align:start THE HUMANS, THE MAMMALS ARE ALL IN THE CHORDATE PHYLUM. 11:10.133 --> 11:12.200 align:start OH, HERE'S SOME NEAT STUFF RIGHT HERE. 11:12.300 --> 11:15.367 align:start YOU ONLY SEE SMALL PATCHES OF THIS CORAL HERE AND 11:15.467 --> 11:17.167 align:start THIS CORAL IS TYPICAL OF THE LOW INNER TIDAL ZONE. 11:17.267 --> 11:19.133 align:start THIS IS ANOTHER NUDIBRANCH. 11:19.234 --> 11:24.701 align:start WE'VE GOT THESE EXTREME TIDES IN ANEXTREMELY DRY, 11:24.801 --> 11:29.801 align:start WARM DESERT, EXTREME SALINITIES, 11:29.901 --> 11:31.501 align:start THOSE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS SEEM TO BE 11:31.601 --> 11:33.767 align:start FAIRLY IMPORTANT IN DETERMINING THE 11:33.868 --> 11:35.934 align:start DISTRIBUTION OF A LOT OF THE ANIMALS ON THE SHORE. 11:36.033 --> 11:44.100 align:start OKAY. LET'S GO UP TO THIS RICH ZONE IN THE MIDDLE INNER 11:44.200 --> 11:50.234 align:start TIDAL, LOWER MIDDLE INNER TIDAL, AND SEE LOTS OF CREEPY, CRAWLY. 11:50.334 --> 11:54.200 align:start WHAT'S THIS RIGHT HERE? 11:54.300 --> 12:00.133 align:start OH, THIS IS A FLAT WORM AND THEY GET THEIR NAME 12:00.234 --> 12:02.467 align:start BECAUSE THEY'RE VERY FLAT, ONLY THREE LAYERS THICK. 12:02.567 --> 12:05.067 align:start THEY'RE SO THIN THAT THEY DON'T EVEN NEED A CIRCULATORY SYSTEM. 12:05.167 --> 12:08.100 align:start THEY CAN GET ALL THEIR OXYGEN DIRECTLY FROM THE WATER. 12:08.200 --> 12:11.234 align:start OH, THERE'S A SHRIMP, A TIDEPOOL SHRIMP RIGHT THERE. 12:11.334 --> 12:15.167 align:start THEY'RE VERY HARD TO SEE. 12:15.267 --> 12:18.667 align:start TIDEPOOL IS ONE OF THE MICROHABITATS THAT 12:18.767 --> 12:21.367 align:start YOU FIND IN THE INNER TIDAL ZONE. 12:21.467 --> 12:24.534 align:start IT'S AN IMPORTANT MICROHABITAT BECAUSE IT HOLDS 12:24.634 --> 12:27.467 align:start WATER AND A LOT OF THE THINGS REQUIRE WATER. SO IT 12:27.567 --> 12:32.067 align:start KIND OF BRINGS THE SUB-TIDAL INTO THE INNER TIDAL ZONE. 12:32.167 --> 12:34.667 align:start THE SWIMMING CLAM, ITS SCIENTIFIC NAME IS KIND OF 12:34.767 --> 12:38.601 align:start PRETTY, LIMA PACIFICA, IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 12:38.701 --> 12:41.534 align:start ANIMALS OUT HERE AND GRACEFUL. 12:41.634 --> 12:47.033 align:start IT HAS THE ABILITY TO SWIM BY CLOSING ITS TWO VALVES 12:47.133 --> 12:49.968 align:start REALLY FAST AND PRODUCING A JET PROPULSION. 12:50.067 --> 12:52.667 align:start USUALLY LIVE UNDER THE BOULDERS AND OFTEN IN 12:52.767 --> 12:57.267 align:start ASSOCIATION WITH BRIGHT ORANGE COLORED FIREWORM. 12:57.367 --> 12:59.734 align:start PROBABLY GET SOME PROTECTION FROM THE FIREWORM. 12:59.834 --> 13:03.934 align:start THIS GOLF BALL SPONGE, THIS ORANGE GOLF BALL 13:04.033 --> 13:06.234 align:start SPONGE, IS REAL COMMON UNDER THE LEDGES OF ROCKS 13:06.334 --> 13:10.200 align:start HERE AND IF WE OPEN IT UP, WE CAN SEE ON THE INSIDE 13:10.300 --> 13:14.234 align:start THE SPICULES, THE GLASS-LIKE SPICULES THAT 13:14.334 --> 13:16.868 align:start ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF ALL SPONGES ALTHOUGH DIFFERENT 13:16.968 --> 13:20.234 align:start SHAPES AND SIZES CHARACTERIZE INDIVIDUAL SPONGES. 13:20.334 --> 13:26.334 align:start VERY SIMPLE ANIMAL THAT HAS TINY HOLES THAT TAKE 13:26.434 --> 13:31.467 align:start IN WATER AND LARGER HOLES OR PORES THAT EXCRETE THE WATER. 13:31.567 --> 13:37.667 align:start SPONGES ARE ANIMALS THAT HAVE TO LIVE IN THE LOW 13:37.767 --> 13:39.567 align:start INNER TIDAL ZONES OR IN MID ZONES IN TIDEPOOLS 13:39.667 --> 13:41.100 align:start WHERE THEY'RE COVERED WITH WATER UNDER ROCKS. 13:41.200 --> 13:43.033 align:start THEY CAN'T TOLERATE THAT EXPOSURE. 13:43.133 --> 13:47.801 align:start THIS SEA ANEMONE HERE IS BRIGHT ORANGE IN COLOR AND 13:47.901 --> 13:49.834 align:start IT'S TYPICAL OF THESE TIDEPOOL HABITATS HERE IN 13:49.934 --> 13:52.167 align:start THE MIDDLE INNER TIDAL ZONES. 13:52.267 --> 13:55.567 align:start SEA ANEMONES CAN'T, THEY'RE SOFT BODIED AND 13:55.667 --> 13:57.534 align:start THEY CAN'T LIVE IN THE HIGHER ZONES. 13:57.634 --> 14:00.434 align:start TIDEPOOLS ARE SOMETIMES CALLED THE WINDOW OF THE SEA BECAUSE 14:00.534 --> 14:03.467 align:start THEY GIVE ONE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE WHAT'S IN, UNDER THE SEA. 14:03.567 --> 14:10.801 align:start IT'S KIND OF LIKE A SUBSET OF THAT UNDERSEA HABITAT BROUGHT 14:10.901 --> 14:13.801 align:start INTO THE INNER TIDAL WHERE ONE CAN LOOK AT IT MUCH EASIER. 14:13.901 --> 14:18.200 align:start THIS IS THE BIGGEST OF THE SPECIES OF OCTOPUS FOUND 14:18.300 --> 14:21.100 align:start HERE AND THAT'S A SMALL ANIMAL. 14:21.200 --> 14:22.534 align:start THEY GET TO BE THREE TIMES THAT SIZE. 14:22.634 --> 14:25.100 align:start OCTOPUS HAVE THE ABILITY TO SHOOT OUT A SPRAY OF 14:25.200 --> 14:30.801 align:start INK THAT, A CLOUD OF INK THAT HIDES IT. 14:30.901 --> 14:35.868 align:start OCTOPUS ALSO HAVE A REALLY FAST ABILITY TO CHANGE 14:35.968 --> 14:39.534 align:start COLOR AND BLEND WITH THE ENVIRONMENT. 14:39.634 --> 14:45.033 align:start YOU CAN SEE IT TAKING SHAPE AND LOOKING JUST LIKE THAT ROCK. 14:45.133 --> 14:48.367 align:start YOU CAN HARDLY SEE WHERE IT IS. 14:48.467 --> 14:50.801 align:start THEY CAN CHANGE TO WHERE THEY LOOK JUST THE COLOR OF THE SAND. 14:50.901 --> 14:56.467 align:start THEY'RE PRETTY FAST, SO THEY'RE NOT THAT EASY TO GET. 14:56.567 --> 15:06.667 align:start THE INNER TIDAL ZONE IS THE RICHEST PART OF THE 15:06.767 --> 15:09.367 align:start WHOLE MARINE ENVIRONMENT, OR THE SHORE ZONE, 15:09.467 --> 15:12.300 align:start BECAUSE ONE OF THE MOST LIMITING RESOURCES IN THE 15:12.400 --> 15:13.901 align:start MARINE ENVIRONMENT IS LIGHT. 15:14.000 --> 15:18.434 align:start THE WHOLE FOOD CHAIN IS BASED ON ALGAE AND ALGAE 15:18.534 --> 15:23.067 align:start PLANTS REQUIRE LIGHT AND AS YOU GET INTO THE DEEP 15:23.167 --> 15:24.901 align:start LAYERS OF THE OCEAN, YOU GET LESS AND LESS LIGHT 15:25.000 --> 15:27.601 align:start AVAILABLE FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS. 15:27.701 --> 15:29.501 align:start SO IT'S ONLY ON THE SURFACE LAYERS OF THE 15:29.601 --> 15:31.834 align:start OCEAN WHERE THERE'S ENOUGH LIGHT TO FEED THE FOOD 15:31.934 --> 15:33.601 align:start CHAIN AND ALONG THE SHORES, 15:33.701 --> 15:37.734 align:start BECAUSE OF THE PHYSICAL SUBSTRATE THAT PLANTS HAVE 15:37.834 --> 15:44.667 align:start TO ATTACH TO, THERE'S A LOT OF PRODUCTION OF ALGAE. 15:44.767 --> 15:48.000 align:start THIS IS A TURBAN SNAIL, TURBO FLUCTUOSA, 15:48.100 --> 15:51.234 align:start ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE HERBIVORES THAT 15:51.334 --> 15:54.100 align:start FEED THE ALGAE ON THE ROCKS HERE IN THE INNER TIDAL ZONE. 15:54.200 --> 16:02.067 align:start SERGEANT MAJORS FEED ON TINY ISOPODS AND AMPHIPODS 16:02.167 --> 16:04.601 align:start THAT LIVE IN AND AROUND DIFFERENT SPECIES OF SEAWEEDS. 16:04.701 --> 16:09.267 align:start SEAWEEDS ARE IMPORTANT FOR MICROHABITATS FOR A LOT OF 16:09.367 --> 16:13.467 align:start FOOD SPECIES FOR FISH. AND HERE'SSOME GOBIES. 16:13.567 --> 16:18.534 align:start GOBIES ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR ABILITY TO TOLERATE THE EXPOSURE 16:18.634 --> 16:23.400 align:start AND THE HIGHER TEMPERATURES FOUND IN THE INNER TIDAL ZONES. 16:23.501 --> 16:25.300 align:start THERE'S ALSO A CLINGFISH. IT ACTUALLY LIVES 16:25.400 --> 16:27.601 align:start ATTACHED TO THE BOTTOMS OF THE ROCKS IN 16:27.701 --> 16:29.200 align:start THE INNER TIDAL ZONE WHERE THEY'RE QUITE 16:29.300 --> 16:32.000 align:start ABLE TO WITHSTAND DRY CONDITIONS. 16:32.100 --> 16:34.067 align:start ALTHOUGH THEY PREFER IT MOIST, 16:34.167 --> 16:35.767 align:start THEY CAN TOLERATE SOME EXPOSURE. 16:35.868 --> 16:39.300 align:start THEY LIVE UNDER THE ROCKS AND THEY'RE BARNACLE EATERS. 16:39.400 --> 16:42.234 align:start THE THATCHED BARNACLE IS TYPICAL, 16:42.334 --> 16:45.300 align:start AN INDICATOR SPECIES FOR THE HIGH INNER TIDAL ZONE. 16:45.400 --> 16:50.868 align:start THIS LARGE BARNACLE HAS A RELATIVELY SMALL SURFACE 16:50.968 --> 16:54.534 align:start AREA RELATIVE TO ITS BODY VOLUME ENABLING IT TO 16:54.634 --> 16:58.033 align:start WITHSTAND THE EXPOSURE AND POTENTIAL DESICCATION IT 16:58.133 --> 16:59.467 align:start ENCOUNTERS IN THESE HIGH ZONES. 16:59.567 --> 17:02.901 align:start BECAUSE THERE'S A LIMITED AMOUNT OF SHORE ALONG THE WORLD, 17:03.000 --> 17:05.167 align:start THERE'S A LIMITED AMOUNT OF SPACE TO ATTACH TO, 17:05.267 --> 17:06.934 align:start AND ROCKY INNER TIDAL ZONES ARE ESPECIALLY 17:07.033 --> 17:08.367 align:start IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY'RE MUCH, 17:08.467 --> 17:11.534 align:start MUCH MORE DURABLE OR, IT'S MUCH EASIER TO ATTACH TO A 17:11.634 --> 17:14.033 align:start ROCKY SUBSTRATE THAN TO TRY TO ATTACH TO SAND, 17:14.133 --> 17:17.300 align:start MOVING, CONSTANTLY MOVING SAND GRAINS. 17:17.400 --> 17:22.167 align:start THE SUN STAR'S PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT AND 17:22.267 --> 17:25.868 align:start A SYMBOL TO US HERE AT PUERTO PEÑASCO BECAUSE BY 17:25.968 --> 17:29.033 align:start EATING A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS IN THAT COMMUNITY, 17:29.133 --> 17:32.100 align:start THE SUN STAR WAS ABLE TO KEEP THE NUMBERS DOWN SO 17:32.200 --> 17:34.367 align:start THAT A LOT OF SPECIES COULD CO-EXIST 17:34.467 --> 17:36.434 align:start TOGETHER ENHANCING THE DIVERSITY. 17:36.534 --> 17:43.100 align:start COMPLEXITY IN AN ECOSYSTEM IS EQUAL TO STABILITY, 17:43.200 --> 17:45.934 align:start SO THERE ARE LOTS OF CHECKS AND BALANCES AND SO 17:46.033 --> 17:51.033 align:start WHEN WE GO TO EXPLOIT ANY RESOURCE IN THE MARINE 17:51.133 --> 17:53.467 align:start ENVIRONMENT AND WE GO FOR ONE RESOURCE, 17:53.567 --> 17:58.467 align:start WE'RE RAKING HAVOC ON THE SYSTEM AND ESPECIALLY IF 17:58.567 --> 18:02.067 align:start THE SYSTEM DOES NOT HAVE A LOT OF CHECKS AND BALANCES. 18:02.167 --> 18:08.467 align:start [NATURE SOUNDS] 18:08.567 --> 18:11.200 align:start GETTING A HANDLE ON JUST HOW WOUND TOGETHER RELATIONS ARE 18:11.300 --> 18:14.300 align:start BETWEEN ALL THESE CREATURES IS THE WORK OF NATURALISTS. 18:14.400 --> 18:17.067 align:start THEY PROBABLY COME THE CLOSEST TO SPEAKING ALL 18:17.167 --> 18:19.400 align:start THE NAMES AND RECOGNIZING THE FACES. 18:19.501 --> 18:22.400 align:start LIKE THE FULL MOON PULLS THE TIDE, 18:22.501 --> 18:26.567 align:start THE DESERT SHORE'S GOT SOME DEEP-DOWN PULL ON A NATURALIST. 18:26.667 --> 18:33.567 align:start HERONS THAT YOU CAN SEE FEEDING ALONG THE 18:33.667 --> 18:40.767 align:start COAST OF THE SEA OF CORTEZ ARE KIND OF INTERESTING. 18:40.868 --> 18:42.901 align:start THE YELLOW CROWN NIGHT HERON WADES 18:43.000 --> 18:44.501 align:start IN SHALLOW WATER AND CATCHES CRABS. 18:44.601 --> 18:46.467 align:start THE GREAT BLUE HERON STALKS VERY SLOWLY, VERY SLOWLY 18:46.567 --> 18:48.901 align:start MOVING ITS FEET IN SEARCH OF PREY 18:49.000 --> 18:50.801 align:start WHICH COULD BE A WHOLE VARIETY OF THINGS, BUT FREQUENTLY 18:50.901 --> 18:53.934 align:start IS FISH WHICH IT'LL STAB OR GRAB OUT OF THE WATER. 18:54.033 --> 18:56.634 align:start THE LITTLE BLUE HERON IS A LITTLE BIT MORE ACTIVE 18:56.734 --> 19:02.534 align:start HERON THAT YOU SOMETIMES SEE RUNNING AROUND IN 19:02.634 --> 19:04.868 align:start SHALLOW WATER TRYING TO CATCH THINGS. 19:04.968 --> 19:07.200 align:start ANOTHER ONE, ANOTHER HERON IS THE SNOWY EGRET THAT 19:07.300 --> 19:11.334 align:start USES A PARTICULAR BEHAVIOR, 19:11.434 --> 19:14.133 align:start A LITTLE FOOT SHAKING BEHAVIOR WHERE IT WILL 19:14.234 --> 19:16.734 align:start WALK VERY CAREFULLY THROUGH THE WATER AND 19:16.834 --> 19:20.400 align:start SHAKE ITS ONE FOOT IT HAS UP OFF THE GROUND AS IT 19:20.501 --> 19:27.200 align:start MOVES AND THIS IS A TACTIC TO STARTLE PREY OR TO 19:27.300 --> 19:29.234 align:start BRING THEM TO THE SURFACE WHERE THEY CAN SEE THEM. 19:29.334 --> 19:35.167 align:start BUT NOW ALL THE HERONS ALONG THE COASTLINE ARE WATER LOVING. 19:35.267 --> 19:39.234 align:start IN FACT THE CATTLE EGRET IS AN EGRET THAT IS KNOWN FOR 19:39.334 --> 19:43.801 align:start AND TAKES ITS NAME BECAUSE IT FOLLOWS CATTLE AROUND IN GRASSY 19:43.901 --> 19:49.434 align:start PASTURES AND GATHERS THE INSECTS THAT THE CATTLE SCARE UP. 19:49.534 --> 19:54.767 align:start KIND OF AN INTERESTING BIRD BECAUSE IT'S, 19:54.868 --> 19:57.067 align:start IN JUST THIS CENTURY, HAS MOVED INTO THE NEW WORLD FROM AFRICA. 19:57.167 --> 20:03.267 align:start ALONG THE SEA OF CORTEZ, OF COURSE, 20:03.367 --> 20:07.000 align:start DESERT SCRUB VEGETATION DOESN'T GET VERY HIGH AND THE 20:07.100 --> 20:12.033 align:start BIG TALL COLUMNAR CACTUS LIKE THE CARDONS SERVE AS ROOSTS. 20:12.133 --> 20:16.767 align:start A LOT OF THE GULLS THAT NORMALLY WOULD HAVE TO FLY 20:16.868 --> 20:19.834 align:start TO SOME ISOLATED ISLAND OR SEA SHORE TO ROOST AT 20:19.934 --> 20:22.367 align:start NIGHT CAN USE THE TOPS OF CARDON CACTUS TO ROOST IN. 20:22.467 --> 20:26.367 align:start AND VULTURES, BLACK VULTURES AND TURKEY 20:26.467 --> 20:29.434 align:start VULTURES THAT HAVE TO FIND TALL TREES TO STAY OUT OF 20:29.534 --> 20:31.534 align:start THE WAY OF POTENTIAL PREDATORS, 20:31.634 --> 20:34.467 align:start WILL FREQUENTLY USE CARDON CACTUSES TO ROOST ON. 20:34.567 --> 20:38.300 align:start AND IN FACT, THEY WILL FREQUENT THE SAME PATCH OF 20:38.400 --> 20:42.534 align:start CARDONS WITH GREAT REPETITION, 20:42.634 --> 20:44.734 align:start AND YOU CAN FIND THESE PLACES PRETTY 20:44.834 --> 20:46.667 align:start EASILY BY JUST LOOKING FOR WHITEWASHED 20:46.767 --> 20:51.200 align:start CARDONS FROM ALL THE VULTURE DROPPINGS. 20:51.300 --> 20:54.701 align:start AND, OF COURSE, OTHER BIRDS WILL USE THOSE CARDONS TOO. 20:54.801 --> 20:56.300 align:start RED TAIL HAWKS WILL PERCH IN THEM. 20:56.400 --> 21:02.033 align:start RED TAIL HAWKS WILL BUILD NESTS IN THEM. OSPREYS NEST IN THEM. 21:02.133 --> 21:06.267 align:start BUT THEY, THEY ARE ONE OF THE DOMINANT STRUCTURES IN 21:06.367 --> 21:10.334 align:start THAT SHORE LINE, THE SHORE SIDE OF THE SHORE LINE, 21:10.434 --> 21:13.601 align:start AND A LOT OF THE BIRDS USE THEM FOR ROOSTING OR LOOKOUT PLACES. 21:13.701 --> 21:23.267 align:start [NATURE SOUNDS] 21:23.367 --> 21:25.434 align:start CARDONS WITH WITH OSPREY HOMES ON TOP 21:25.534 --> 21:27.667 align:start ARE FAMILIAR IN THE SIERRA BACHA. 21:27.767 --> 21:29.501 align:start ABOUT A THIRD OF THE WAY ALONG THE SHORE FROM 21:29.601 --> 21:33.334 align:start PUERTO PEÑASCO SOUTH TO GUAYMAS IS THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND 21:33.434 --> 21:37.100 align:start PATCH OF MOUNTAIN DESERT RIGHT NEXT TO DEEP OCEAN. 21:37.200 --> 21:40.434 align:start HERE AMONG THE CARDONS IS WHERE THE SARI INDIANS 21:40.534 --> 21:43.534 align:start BELIEVE SOME GIANT ANCESTORS WERE SWALLOWED UP 21:43.634 --> 21:47.467 align:start BY A GREAT FLOOD AND THAT WASN'T ENTIRELY THE END OF THE GIANTS. 21:47.567 --> 21:50.400 align:start THEY WERE TURNED INTO BOOJUM TREES, 21:50.501 --> 21:52.767 align:start SO BOOJUMS ARE POWERFUL TREES. 21:52.868 --> 21:55.067 align:start IF YOU CUT THEM, YOU CAUSE THE WIND TO BLOW. 21:55.167 --> 21:57.934 align:start THE SIERRA BACHA TENDS TO PUSH YOUR IMAGINATION, THOUGH. 21:58.067 --> 22:03.133 align:start IT'S GOT BOOJUMS AND TEDDY BEARS AND FOG. 22:03.234 --> 22:05.767 align:start THAT'S RIGHT, AS IN LONDON FOG. 22:05.868 --> 22:14.501 align:start THE CARDON IS THE VERY LARGE, COLUMNAR CACTUS WHICH IT FORMS A 22:14.601 --> 22:18.300 align:start FOREST ON THE SAND DUNES JUST NORTH OF THE SIERRA BACHA. 22:18.400 --> 22:21.968 align:start IT'S ONE OF THE LARGEST COLUMNAR CACTI, 22:22.067 --> 22:24.601 align:start AND EVEN THOUGH IT SUPERFICIALLY LOOKS LIKE 22:24.701 --> 22:27.167 align:start THE SAGUARO, IT'S REALLY NOT VERY CLOSELY RELATED. 22:27.267 --> 22:31.300 align:start THE CARDONS HAVE A LARGE FLESHY FRUIT THAT TURNS 22:31.400 --> 22:35.467 align:start BRIGHT RED WHEN IT'S RIPE AND THE FLESH INSIDE IS 22:35.567 --> 22:38.300 align:start VERY TASTY; IT TASTES KIND OF LIKE FIGS AND IT'S 22:38.400 --> 22:43.133 align:start EATEN BY PEOPLE AND WHATEVER ANIMALS CAN REACH IT. 22:43.234 --> 22:50.033 align:start THE SONORAN DESERT IS REALLY MADE UP OF TWO 22:50.133 --> 22:51.501 align:start AREAS WHICH HAVE DIFFERENT EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES. 22:51.601 --> 22:54.868 align:start ABOUT TWELVE MILLION YEARS AGO THE BAJA CALIFORNIA 22:54.968 --> 22:58.367 align:start PENINSULA SPLIT APART FROM MAINLAND MEXICO AND, 22:58.467 --> 23:01.801 align:start LEAVING THE PLANTS ON THE MAINLAND ITSELF. 23:01.901 --> 23:06.200 align:start THEN THE THINGS THAT WERE ON THE PENINSULA UNDERWENT 23:06.300 --> 23:12.801 align:start A MAJOR EVOLUTIONARY RADIATION. 23:12.901 --> 23:16.300 align:start THE SIERRA BACHA IS A SPECIAL DESERT MOUNTAIN 23:16.400 --> 23:18.367 align:start RANGE SITUATED ON THE EDGE OF THE COAST. 23:18.467 --> 23:25.501 align:start [WAVES RUSHING] 23:25.601 --> 23:27.901 align:start SIERRA BACHA IS A UNIQUE PLACE BECAUSE IT HAS 23:28.000 --> 23:32.133 align:start MANY ELEMENTS THAT ARE TYPICAL OF THE GULF COAST 23:32.234 --> 23:34.968 align:start PART OF THE SONORAN DESERT BUT IT ALSO HAS A NUMBER 23:35.067 --> 23:37.834 align:start OF RELIC POPULATIONS OF BAJA CALIFORNIA THINGS. 23:37.934 --> 23:40.767 align:start SO IT SUPPORTS A BIOTIC MIXTURE THAT YOU CAN'T 23:40.868 --> 23:43.133 align:start REALLY FIND ANY PLACE ELSE. 23:43.234 --> 23:48.000 align:start THE BOOJUM TREE WAS ONE OF THE BAJA PLANTS THAT EVOLVED 23:48.100 --> 23:52.934 align:start AS THE PENINSULA WAS ISOLATED AND BEGAN TO MOVE NORTH. 23:53.033 --> 23:59.033 align:start THE BOOJUM TREES ARE A CLOSE RELATIVE OF THE 23:59.133 --> 24:01.300 align:start OCOTILLO WHICH IS WIDESPREAD IN THE NORTH 24:01.400 --> 24:04.634 align:start AMERICAN DESERTS AND THEY'RE IN THE SAME GENUS 24:04.734 --> 24:08.601 align:start AND THE SAME FAMILY BUT IT'S A SERIES OF PERHAPS A 24:08.701 --> 24:12.434 align:start DOZEN SPECIES THAT ARE FOUND WELL SOUTH INTO MEXICO. A 24:12.534 --> 24:18.734 align:start BOOJUM TREE IS A BIZARRE PLANT THAT'S SHAPED LIKE AN 24:18.834 --> 24:22.200 align:start UPSIDE-DOWN CARROT. IN THE WINTER TIME IT WILL PUT ON 24:22.300 --> 24:26.901 align:start LEAVES AND HAVE MOST OF ITS GROWTH AND THEN LATER IN 24:27.000 --> 24:30.868 align:start THE SPRING WHEN IT GETS HOT, THE LEAVES WILL FALL OFF 24:30.968 --> 24:33.467 align:start BUT IT MAINLY FLOWERS IN THE SUMMER TIME. 24:33.567 --> 24:38.934 align:start THE SIERRA BACHA IS THE ONLY MAINLAND LOCALITY FOR THE PLANT. 24:39.033 --> 24:45.400 align:start TEDDY BEAR CHOLLAS IN THE SIERRA BACHA ARE 24:45.501 --> 24:49.467 align:start ESPECIALLY DENSE FOR SUCH A DRY PLACE AND THE SIERRA 24:49.567 --> 24:52.901 align:start BACHA SITS NEXT TO THE OCEAN THERE ON A COASTAL 24:53.000 --> 24:56.367 align:start SETTING AND IT HAS MUCH HIGHER RELATIVE HUMIDITY 24:56.467 --> 24:58.968 align:start THAN DRYER, MORE INLAND PARTS OF THE DESERT. 24:59.067 --> 25:02.968 align:start THE TEDDY BEAR CHOLLA FOREST THERE IS AS DENSE 25:03.067 --> 25:07.634 align:start AS ANYWHERE THAT YOU CAN FIND IT. 25:07.734 --> 25:13.734 align:start IT ALSO HAS A SPECIAL LOCAL CLIMATIC FEATURE IN 25:13.834 --> 25:19.100 align:start THAT THE WATER OFF THE COAST IS VERY DEEP AND 25:19.200 --> 25:23.534 align:start THERE'S AN UP WELLING OF COLD WATER WHICH COOLS OFF THE SUMMER 25:23.634 --> 25:27.834 align:start TEMPERATURES AND GENERATES FOGS IN THE WINTER TIME. 25:27.934 --> 25:30.834 align:start SO IT ENDS UP WITH A NARROW STRIP OF A FOG BELT ALONG 25:30.934 --> 25:36.567 align:start THE COAST. AND IT'S DUE TO THIS FOG BELT THAT MANY OF THE BAJA 25:36.667 --> 25:40.334 align:start CALIFORNIA PLANTS CAN PERSIST ALONG THE COAST. 25:40.434 --> 25:46.467 align:start DRY LAND, THE POWER IN THAT LITTLE PHRASE 25:46.567 --> 25:49.968 align:start PROBABLY COMES FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE WITH THE SEA, 25:50.067 --> 25:52.501 align:start MEANING SAFE AGAIN, BACK IN YOUR OWN ELEMENT. 25:52.601 --> 25:54.601 align:start IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT TO ANYBODY 25:54.701 --> 25:57.801 align:start WHO'S BEEN OUT OF THE WATER TOO LONG. 25:57.901 --> 26:02.067 align:start OF COURSE, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE DESERT, 26:02.167 --> 26:03.667 align:start DRY LAND MIGHT SOUND LIKE A DIFFERENT STORY. 26:03.767 --> 26:06.033 align:start TRUTH IS, THE SONORAN DESERT IS FAMILIAR AND 26:06.133 --> 26:11.067 align:start WELCOMING AND SAFE FOR LOTS OF LIVING THINGS FROM BOTH WORLDS, 26:11.167 --> 26:16.200 align:start JUST LIKE IT DOES TO LONESOME SAILORS, DRY LAND MEANS HOME. 26:16.300 --> 27:13.100 align:start [MUSIC] 27:13.200 --> 27:15.634 align:start MAJOR FUNDING FOR THE DESERT SPEAKS HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY 27:15.734 --> 27:19.801 align:start ASARCO, INC., AN INTEGRATED PRODUCER OF NONFERROUS METALS 27:19.901 --> 27:22.267 align:start AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL MINERALS AND PRODUCTS. 27:22.367 --> 27:24.300 align:start ASARCO, INC., ADDING VALUE TO NATURE'S RESOURCES.