The Small Big: Taiwanese Flightless Weevil

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The island of Lanyu, off the southeast coast of Taiwan, is a rich natural environment making it a paradise for insects. Here, you can find the flightless weevil, which is endemic to the island. Follow as the insect seeks its friends after their habitat was destroyed while defeating its nemesis, the Swinhoe's tree lizard.


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The Small Big

The documentary adopts the latest VR technology to record the ecological behaviors of the eight endemic species in Taiwan, including pareas atayal, emerald green treefrog, Formosan hill stag beetle, pachyrrhynchus sarcitis, Formosan macaque, Taiwanese fiddler crab, Mikado pheasant and Formosan lan