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Flamingos create water vortices to trap their prey
- Flamingos use different techniques, such as stomping with webbed feet and chattering their beaks, to create water vortices and trap their prey.
- Scientists observed flamingos at the Nashville Zoo and created artificial copies of their beaks and legs to study in the lab.
- Flamingos actively hunt for moving prey like brine shrimp using vortices to concentrate and capture their food.
- They use techniques like skimming, where their flattened beak and S-shaped neck create sheet-like vortices to trap prey efficiently.
- Researchers suggest that understanding flamingos' feeding strategies could inspire more effective systems for concentrating particles like microplastics.
- Engineers could potentially design robots to navigate in water or mud using techniques inspired by flamingos' movements.
- Flamingos are specialized filter feeders, utilizing their unique body parts and behaviors to capture agile prey effectively.
- The study sheds light on how flamingos' adaptations can be applied to advancements in filtration systems and robotics.
- Flamingos' hunting techniques involve a combination of movements involving their legs, head, and beak to create eddies in the water where they catch their prey.
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