The surface looks completely still — but under that calm mirror, life is stacked in layers. Dip the net and a hidden world wakes up: water striders on the surface, tadpoles in the water, larvae and snails at the bottom.
Surface: water strider
Water: tadpoles and diving beetle
Bottom: larva and snail
5 layers
pond animals live at different depths, surface to bottom
→ frog
tadpoles transform into frogs over the summer
release
every animal goes gently back into the pond afterwards