Make water twister to entice Flemingos and suck your prey: Learn about

During the epidemic, Saad Bhamla saw Flamingo at the zoo, because he ate, and found himself surprised: “What’s going on?”

The birds will immerse their heads with their beaks with their beaks, while stumping their webid legs, walking sideways and transferring their mandis, dividing the water everywhere.

Bhamla and his colleagues decided to study the movements. It turns out, they say, Flemingo uses their neck and beak to make a vortex in water and to trap their prey – a evolutionary practice is clearly different for them.

“We could not believe our eyes,” said Bhamla, an associate professor at Bimolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. As it happens Host Nil Koxle.

“When they lift their head under water, they make a tornado, which traps these small shrimp and small intense living in water, which they want to feed, and make their work easy to squeeze them through mud and mud items that they feed.”

Conclusions published in Journal proceedings of National Academy of Sciences Show that these bright pink, spindly-legged birds are not only standing outside for their eccentric beauty; But also for quirky forging habits and unique development.

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As part of their research, the team observed the 3D-crushed model of Flemingos’ feet and Bix, and studied the skull of a deceased Flamingo.

But the real stars of the study, Bhamla, say, there were Marti and Matte, a dynamic couple of Chile Flemingos (Funny) From Nashville Zoo.

Thanks to their desire to be fed under controlled conditions, the research team can inspect these flamingos as they ate upside down with their heads and immersed in the tank.

Footage of a high -speed camera and other equipment captured the velocity of these movements.

Look Compiled simulation of fossing behavior of Flemingos:

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The team confirmed that their head’s anatomy-especially their L-shaped beak-help to create this whirlpool effect as birds quickly remove their heads from the water.

Bhamla said, “They are shaking their heads in tens of mills.” “And they are doing this continuously, repeatedly.”

The team also saw two other feeding techniques: nonsense and petting.

The nonsense occurs when the birds clap in their upper mandis, or jaw bones, underwater. Matty and Marti also dodged their spicy, when they were still standing, or as they waged their legs to stir the sediment.

Filling the stomach with your asymmetric webbed toes helps the flamingos to produce vortex complementary to catch small prey and then easily swallow them with their beaks stationed near their feet.

Bhamla Lab website The video clip and a comic book illustrates the wide breakdown of each of these techniques, including the portrayal.

‘They are not doing a strange dance’

Jerry Lorenz, former research director of Bird Conservation Organization Audbon Florida, who was not involved with the project, said the team did an excellent work “viewing various flow patterns and movements of both the bill and the tongue.”

“We know that Flemingos had a very interesting way of forging and his mouth parts were just a strange thing,” he said. “But the way they put it together, it was really surprising to make it an understanding of this development. I was really happy with the whole thing.”

From a perspective of conservation, Loreng says that these conclusions are important to understand how Flemingos interact with their environment to know how to preserve it.

“Development does not do an accident. If they are behaving and you do not understand why, there is a evolutionary reason for them,” he said.

“They are not doing a fun dance. It’s how they get their food.”