David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies

Name: David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-01-03T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 51 min
Rating: 8.2
Cast: David Attenborough

Evolutionary story of flight from the very first insects to the incredible array of creatures which rule the skies today.

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Ended

Original Name

David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies

First Air Date

January 3, 2015

Last Air Date

January 10, 2015

Seasons

Episodes

Language

English

Production Companies

Atlantic Productions

Networks

Sky One

S01E03

Triumph

David Attenborough concludes his epic history of the evolution of flight with an exploration of the highly advanced fliers that dominate our skies today – the extraordinarily diverse skills of the birds, and the sonar-guided precision of the bats. He encounters some of our planet’s most remarkable fliers – from peregrine falcons dive-bombing starlings over Rome, to hummingbirds hovering in the cloud forests of Ecuador. In a spectacular finale, he visits Gomantong cave in Borneo to witness the mass exodus of a million bats.

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