Nature Wonder Land II: Lizard Dashing on Water – Basilisk, Costa Rica
Original title: Darwin ga Kita! Ikimono Shin-densetsu: Suijyou wo Hashiru Nazono Basilisk
Duration: 25’
Producer: Gen Sasaki / Shinichi Murata
Director: Kazuki Ueda
Participant: Fumina Koike
Company: NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.)
Scientific field: Zoology
Year: 2007
Country: Japan
In the jungles of Costa Rica, there are 80cm-long lizards with the ability to run across water
on their hind legs. In this edition of “Nature Wonderland II”, images from a cutting-edge NHK-
developed camera that captures one million frames per second reveal exactly how basilisks
manage this amazing feat.
Nature Wonder Land II: Lizard Dashing on Water – Basilisk, Costa Rica
