Hummingbirds - Jewelled Messengers

This is the story of how hummingbirds became the greatest aerial acrobats on earth. Plants ‘created’ hummingbirds as their messengers, carrying pollen from flower to flower. The film follows the evolution of the birds, as they are shaped by their role as ‘go-betweens’. Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of any vertebrate. They can hover, fly backwards and even backwards and upside down. They have the smallest warm-blooded creature on earth in their number. These glittering birds live on the edge of what is possible, even going into a kind of hibernation each night, and all because of plants.

Pariscience 2012 - Buffon Prize
: Friday 05th October 2012 from 14h00 to 15h30, Saturday 06th October 2012 from 14h00 to 15h30