Browse biomimicry
12,365 total results- Forum Discussions
- People
- Groups
- Products
- Strategies
-
All Strategies (1648)
Break down
Get, store, or distribute resources
Maintain community
Maintain physical integrity
Make
Modify
Move or stay put
Process information
- Compute
- Encode/decode
- Learn
- Navigate
- Process signals
- Send signals
- Sense signals/environmental cues
-
Atmospheric conditions (12)
Balance/gravity/orientation (6)
Body awareness (3)
Chemicals (odor, taste, etc.) (51)
Disease (7)
Electricity/magnetism (16)
Light - non-visible spectrum (13)
Light - visible spectrum (27)
Motion (12)
Pain (0)
Shape and pattern (6)
Sound and other vibrations (25)
Temperature (11)
Time and day length (4)
Touch and mechanical forces (17)
- Mosquitoes detect carbon dioxide: malarial mosquitoes
- Scent trails lead to food: European moths
- More successful pollination: orchids
- Bacteria sense and move toward chemicals: Escherichia coli
- Organs detect scent: reptiles
- Fish body is a swimming tongue: channel catfish
- Feet taste food: blowfly
- Feet sensitive to sweetness: butterfly
- Olfactory sense pinpoints spawning river: Atlantic salmon
- Membranes distinguish sweet from sour: colon bacilli
- Tusks sense chemicals: Narwhal
- Signal directs sperm: fern
- Pigments cells respond to hormones: African clawed frog
- Taste neurons detect CO2: fruit fly
- Mucus helps humans smell: human
- Fan-like antennae aid sensing: cockchafer beetle
- Blind cave-dwellers have super senses: Alabama cavefish
- Olfaction assists navigation: white-chinned petrel
- Receptors detect ruminant hosts: hard ticks
- Olfactory system detects decomposition: house fly
- Tentacles detect predators: queen scallop
- Antennae enhance odor detection: giant silkworm moths
- Antennae detect odors: dampwood termite
- Sensitivity to sweetness aids in food selection: honeybee
- Fins taste by touch: gurnards
- Nostrils detect minute quantities of blood: great white shark
- Sensitive antennae detect sex pheromones: Indian luna moth
- Antennae used to detect pheromones, find mates: moths
- Antennae detect individual orchid species: iridescent bees
- Underwater sensors detect odors: spiny lobster
- Stigmas ensure pollination: angiosperms
- Leaves signal presence of predators: acacia
- Cytoplasm seeks efficient routes: slime mold
- Communication molecules coordinate behavior: chronic wound bacteria
- Smell used for navigation: desert ant
- Oily coating serves dual purpose: silk moth
- Chemicals signals used for quorum sensing: bacteria
- Receptors guide bacterial navigation: Escherichia coli
- Photosynthetic systems rapidly disassembles and reforms: Rhodobacter sphaeroides
- Chemical reception discourages taxis: woodlice
- Transport proteins respond to nutrient concentration: Aspergillus nidulans fungus
- Chemicals reveal foes: carpenter ant
- Discharge trigger responds to fish's chemical cues: whirling disease parasite
- Chemical sensing of predators determines egg-laying: Culiseta longiareolata mosquito
