Life in a Meadow
The meadow, a species-rich community of grasses and flowers, in which many insects and other animals romp.
Description
Storks hunt for mice, field crickets fight for their territory, butterfly caterpillars take on ants as bodyguards. Meadows are a temporary habitat in our latitudes. If they were not cut regularly, they would soon be overgrown by trees. Where meadows are fertilized particularly strongly, they are threatened with a different fate: the colourful flower splendour becomes a monotonous fat meadow, which provides a lot of cattle feed, but is ecologically worthless.
Life in a Meadow
Duration 15 minutes
For SWR & WDR
Completion 2013
