Dragonfly Behavior - Discovering the Dynamic Life of an Ancient Order of Insects

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Autoren	Georg Rüppell, Dagmar Hilfert-Rüppell
Sprache	Englisch
ISBN	9783662702338
Verlag	Springer Nature
Seiten	229
Größe	172 x 246 mm
Format	Gebunden
Bilder	Farbfotos und S/w Illustrationen
Erscheinungsjahr	2024

This book is the first to allow you to experience the details of the ultra-fast lives of dragonflies, these large, beautiful flying insects, through an abundance of unique snapshots and image sequences. Dragonflies are world champions of flight, bionic wonders; they reveal much about the mysteries of evolution. We witness their social interaction, and appreciate their success over three hundred million years. Dragonflies are easy to observe, even for beginners. About 80 species live in Germany, and every body of water is home to a few. They are not shy, do not sting and often come very close. The two authors have been studying them for over 30 years and with the knowledge in this book, you will look at dragonflies in a completely novel way.

Contents:

Appearance
Eyes
Wings
Flight artists
Turning flight
Colored wings
Catching prey
Fighting
Defense of males
Interspecific discord
Colors
Threatening
Mating
Oviposition
Larvae
Hunting
Hatching
Maiden flight
Ecological significance
Response to climate change

Georg Rüppell was a professor of behavioural ecology at the Technical University of Braunschweig and supervised over 300 studies with his working group, many of them on dragonflies. It was the quick-reaction training he got through his teenage sporting activities, he finds, that helped him to be constantly alert to the abrupt flight movements around him. He was the first biologist in the world to take up the field study of bird flight using slow-mo, and subsequently apply his expertise to dragonflies. He met his wife Dagmar Hilfert-Rüppell on a research trip to the dragonflies of Japan.

Dagmar Hilfert-Ruppell has been studying and filming dragonflies for 30 years. She is particularly fond of damselflies, about which she wrote her doctoral thesis. She has developed infinite patience when filming to capture new behaviours in close-up. She is also the inspired driving force behind their numerous trips all around the world.

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