Air overlord: dragonflies can travel between India and Asia
Dragonflies are the overlords of the insect world, and their ferocious carnivorous habits make many insects, such as hornets, who are already powerful, bow down to the wind. Recent studies have found that dragonflies can fly thousands of kilometers, starting from India and flying across the Indian Ocean to Africa and then returning to India, which proves that dragonflies are worthy of the strongest flying king.
According to the Daily Science Report, in a recently published research report, the multinational research team tried to solve the hypothesis whether dragonflies have a unique flying ability, cross the Maldives from India into Africa, and then return to the original place. The team built a set of models and found that dragonfly can indeed achieve the situation described by the above hypothesis.
In 2009, a marine biologist named Anderson (Charles Anderson) observed an unusual animal behavior. A group of dragodnflies seemed to come from as far away as India, and then flew towards East Africa.
Today, 12 years later, a multinational research team is trying to solve the doubts in people’s minds. Because dragonflies are too small to record their whereabouts with signal transmitters, and with the limits of human technology, they can only be analyzed by relatively indirect methods. Their possibilities.
The researchers then analyzed factors such as the energy stored in the dragonfly's body, the longest single time in the air, and the wind direction that is conducive to migration, and then used these data to build a set of simulation models. When the model began to operate, the scientists found that, Dragonflies do have the ability to travel across oceans.
According to the report, taking into account the influence of the monsoon, about 15% of dragonflies will fly from India to Africa in spring, while another 40% of dragonflies will return to India driven by the wind in autumn.