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Film summary
Discover the reasons animals and tiny insects travel vast distances each year.
Key facts
- Facts about Migrating Animals and Insects, for example:
- Leatherback turtles hold the record for longest marine migration: 20,557km.
- European eels travel 5000km to seas in Bahamas.
- Locusts travel across Africa, the Middle East and Australia, destroying crops as they go.
Transcript
Humans travel long distances
For business
On holiday
Visiting family
Other animals travel farther for different reasons
The Monarch Butterfly
Migrates in winter
Just 20mm long – it can fly 80km a day
From North America to Mexico
In search of warmer weather
Herds of White-Eared Kob
Up to 1,000,000 …
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