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The ocean

Oceans are stable environments: temperatures and chemical compositions hardly change. Although it concerns immeasurable quantities of water, most inhabitants still live close to the continental coastlines or islands. Here most of the food is found and animals that grow onto something, like sea anemones, can easily find solid ground. In the tropics, if the water is sufficiently pure, coral can grow that can build entire reefs over the course of millions of years. These reefs then become the living environment of an incredible number of animal species. On the basis of their biological wealth coral reefs are sometimes compared to tropical rain forests. Burgers' Ocean shows both the rich animal life along the coastline and on the reef as well as the surprises of the open ocean and great depths. The visitor dives into South-East Asia and gets to see a number of diverging living environments.

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