SuperNature - Wild Flyers

In the opening program of SuperNature - Wild Flyers, we explore the basic principles of flight to discover how animals get airborne in the first place.

In this episode of SuperNature - Wild Flyers, we see how nature has pushed the basic flying body plan to extremes. How do the heaviest animals take off, the fastest use speed as a weapon, or those traversing the widest oceans do so with barely a wing beat?

In this episode of SuperNature - Wild Flyers, we discover why the sky is a place worth fighting for, how animals live, sleep, mate and die on the wing, and what superior strategies they must possess to ensure their success in an aerial world full of flying creatures.