Increase in hydrostatic pressure forces blood from pores
81. Just-in-time manufacturing conserves resources: snakes
"Just-in-time manufacturing: Producing as needed and at the time of the need is widely used in biology and such examples include the making of the web by spiders or the production of the toxic chemicals by snakes. Such a capability is increasingly...
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Email82. Rapid buzzing allows bees to extract pollen from the distal pores of the stamens of Solanum dulcamara.
“The cone of fused anthers release pollen from pores at their tips. Bees collect this pollen by grasping the anther cone and vibrating their flight muscles.” (Glover et al. 2004)
83. BioMimics 3D™ stent technology
Veryan Medical is developing innovative solutions for vascular disease by using its advanced understanding of the physics of blood flow. The company is developing a range of cutting edge vascular products, including to address vascular disea...
84. Burrow shape creates ventilation: prairie dog
"Where a fluid flows across a surface, such as wind over the earth, the velocity gradient created provides a potential source of work. This gradient might be employed by one burrowing animal to induce air-flow in its long, narrow burrow. The burro...
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86. Hydration increases internal pressure: legumes
"If you take some dry legume seeds and immerse them in water they swell up. If they're put in a closed chamber into which water can pass but out of which they can't squeeze or ooze, then their swelling will push outward on the chamber with surpris...
87. Examples of biomimicry applications in various South African bird species.
SOME EXAMPLES OF POSSIBLE BIOMIMICRY APPLICATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICAN BIRDS.Source: 'Birds - The Inside Story: Exploring birds and their behaviour in southern Africa'. Struik Publishers. 2005, Cape Town, South Africa.Application 1: Aerodynamics &ndas...
88. Impatiens change water pressure to disperse seeds.
Mechanism: Water pressure in plant cells (turgor) prevents leaves and stems from wilting and keeps cells rigid under the influence of gravitational forces which allows vertical growth. Champions: Impatiens sp. - once it reaches its threshold press...
89. Skin protects from fungus: red-backed salamander
"The disease chytridiomycosis, which is caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, is associated with recent declines in amphibian populations. Susceptibility to this disease varies among amphibian populations and species, ...
90. Blood carries oxygen in varied conditions: human
"Nature has evolved in ways that, at the molecular scale, make inventive and elegant uses of chemistry. To take an example more or less at random, the use of allosteric effects by haemoglobin to fine-tune the protein's affinity for oxygen in diffe...
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