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[00:00.61]Larger insects and animals need more than a breeze to carry them away.
[00:05.34]Vast tracts of warm water are a perfect environment for cyclones.
[00:09.87]Over half the cyclones on the planet
[00:12.11]- around 30 a year -
[00:13.23]form in the Pacific Ocean.
[00:15.67]Heated by the warm tropical sun,
[00:17.75]water evaporates and forms massive thunderstorms,
[00:21.11]fuelling a whirling vortex,
[00:23.51]in some cases up to 500 miles wide.
[00:26.92]When they collide with islands,
[00:28.80]they unleash their fury.
[00:30.89]Winds in excess of 100 miles an hour can uproot a forest.
[00:35.32]Large insects can be sucked up into the sky,
[00:38.18]so why not birds, bats and lizards?
[00:42.45]In fact, all these creatures are known to have been carried hundreds of miles out to sea by cyclones.
[00:48.19]When the storm subsides,
[00:50.22]most will meet a watery grave.
[00:53.24]But a very, very lucky few will land on firm ground.
[00:57.51]And from these survivors,
[00:59.24]a whole island dynasty may be born.