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481: No Such Thing As Taming A Plane

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Dangers of Puffin Fishing

There are still puffiniers, as they call themselves, who have to go to the island to keep it healthy for the puffins and prevent the gulls from taking root there. They inflate a robot mannequin dressed in an Arnold Schwarzenegger mask which is supposed to scare off the gulls. The only problem is that the gulls will eventually realize this is a motionless, it's not an effective, scary thing because it just sits there,. I've watched this footage, it's amazing, it was a David Attenborough planet Earth. Their fishing is amazing, because often they will have sort of depleted the area that's closest to an island where they're fishing.

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