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Crowded Skies - The sky is a crowded world where mammals, birds and insects hunt, escape, mate, defend territory, sleep, and even die on the wing. Survival up here depends not just on beating gravity or mastering flight, but also out-flying the competition.

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Crowded Skies

How do flying creatures outfly each other to survive in the crowed world of the sky?

Masters of the Sky

How do the planets strongest flyers push the limits of flight right to the very edge?

Defying Gravity

How do animals overcome one of the planet’s most powerful and universal forces – gravity?

About SuperNature - Wild Flyers

The sky is one of the world's most challenging places to live, but across the planet, an extraordinary range of animals do something we can only dream of take to the air. Some spend their whole lives airborne, while others only visit. But, they all have one thing in common: they survive by taking to the skies.

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