Sky Hunters - The World of the Dragonfly

Sky Hunters
The World of the Dragonfly

Sky Hunters - The World of the Dragonfly

National Geographic | Animal | Science | The Secrets of Nature

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They hover over ponds and pools and inhabit the banks of rivers and streams. With their dazzling metallic colours and unique ways of flying they are truly jewels of the air. Yes, they are dragonflies.

This film shows dragonflies as they have never been seen before. Fascinating close up shots take us into the world of these insects. Unbelievable enough that they have lived on earth since the age of the dinosaurs.

The spectacular super slow motion shots and elaborate computer animation uncover, for the first time, how dragonflies capture their prey at lightning speed while flying and how they mate in the air.

Underwater photography shows the development of the predatory dragonfly larvae. The fully grown dragonfly was shown in the sequence of emergence.

However, these amazingly colourful flying acrobats are in danger. Their preferred habitat places around the water are rapidly diminishing. Only in Europe alone, there has been an extinction of around 80 species because of the habitat..

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[- Sky Hunters - The World of the Dragonfly -]

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