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There and Back Again

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The Dragonfly Is Born in a Pond

The dragonfly is born in a pond, sucked up by evaporating air. It hits a monsoon cloud, goes into a jet stream and travels across the Indian Ocean. When you put all these journeys together, they can actually kind of visualize it. They can put it on a map and animate it. What you'd see is basically all these different points of light. Each one is representing a tag or an animal.

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