It’s monkey business in Bali airport

Marine life has wild mating rituals. Lobster foreplay involves spraying each other with urine, while the Argonaut octopus has a detachable penis. The blue-ringed octopus, found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, contains enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes. The Pacific Ocean covers 30% of the Earth’s surface and its deepest point, in the Mariana Trench, is 36,000ft, which would swallow Mount Everest. The blobfish, which lives in seas off Australia, has been voted the world’s ugliest animal. Then there’s the barreleye, which has a transparent head.

Hammerhead sharks have an odd-shaped head to detect electric currents to help them hunt for food.

There are three million shipwrecks in the oceans, tsunamis can travel at 500mph and the seas contain the globe’s longest mountain range, the 34,800-mile mid-oceanic ridge. Blue Planet Live will explore the human threat to the oceans. A million seabirds a year are killed by plastic, while human rubbish has been found more than 6,000ft down. THIS orangutan proved a real basket case for border authorities after an attempt to smuggle him out of Bali.

The two-year-old primate was drugged and squashed into a small hamper before being bundled on to a flight heading to Russia.

Later, the male was full of beans after being cared for at the Denpasar Quarantine Agency.

Russian Andrei Zhestkov, who claimed to have bought the orangutan for £2,300 to keep as a pet, was arrested at Bali International Airport in Indonesia yesterday.

Police also found two live geckos and five lizards in his suitcase. Whales feature heavily in the new show. At up to 98ft and weighing as much as 173 tonnes, blue whales are the biggest creatures that have ever lived. They boast a heart the size of a car and a 10ft penis!

Oceans cover 70% of the surface of the planet but less than 5% have been explored. We have better maps of Mars. Our seas produce most of our oxygen and hold 94% of all life. Sailfish can swim at60mph, starfish can regrow their arms and the peacock mantis throws a punch at50mph. Tusk fish use rocks to break open clams, while turtles have existed for 215million years. Blue Planet Live will visit locations across the globe including Mexico, the Bahamas as well as the Great Barrier Reef off Australia, which is home to 1,500 species of fish and 400 coral. TV’S popular nature series is back – as Blue Planet Live hits our screens tonight.The new four-part BBC One show, with Chris Packham, Liz Bonnin and Steve Backshall, above, will reveal all about the health of our oceans, while featuring more amazing critters.Here, JAMES MOORE whets your appetite with some amazing secrets from the deep… Blue Planet Live starts tonight at 8pm on BBC One