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101. Nasal surfaces remove water vapor.
"We have found that camels can reduce the water loss due to evaporation from the respiratory tract in two ways: (1) by decreasing the temperature of the exhaled air and (2) by removal of water vapour from this air, resulting in the exhalation of a...
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102. Roots maximize water uptake: plants
"To find water, a plant has to position its roots with just as much precision as it arranges its leaves. If moisture is in very short supply, then a plant may have to drive a tap root deep into the ground to reach the water table. Some desert plan...
103. Trees comb water from clouds: cloud forests
"Cloud forests, which are dense tracts of evergreens rising thousands of meters above sea level, contribute to yield, but in a novel manner: they literally comb water from the clouds. In the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and other coastal slopes or ...
104. Senstive plant uses water to change its shape.
The leaves of the sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) respond to physical stimuli by dropping their leaves into a folded position. This is caused by water pressure change due to movement of water in cells. In a resting state, the leaves and leaflets a...
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106. Surface cells store water: ice plant
"Southern Africa is the headquarters of a vast and varied family, the mesembryanthemums…One species retains liquid in tiny bladders on the surface of each bloated leaf that glisten in the sunshine and so give it the name, apt though improba...
107. Flexibility reduces drag: daffodil
"And daffodil flowers, borne off to one side of their stems, swing around similarly, reducing their drag by about 30 percent in the process (Etnier and Vogel 2000). Twisting in the wind isn't just a slogan left over from the Nixon presidency. Daff...
108. Pressure sucks moisture from soil: desert plants
"Plants again. Even in a desert the soil a little ways below the surface contains liquid water. It's called 'capillary water' and is often thought of as firmly stuck to soil particles. The binding, though, is as much physical as chemical - the wat...
109. Grooves gather water.
"The thorny devil, a tiny highly specialised lizard from the central Australian desert which lives entirely on ants has each scale enlarged and drawn out to a point in the centre. Few birds could relish such a thorny mouthful and to that extent, t...
110. Spider creates underwater air tank: water spider
"Perhaps the most impressive use of gaseous air under water is that of the European water spider, Argyronetes aquatica (Foelix 1996). It is the only spider that lives constantly underwater - Walking, swimming, feeding, mating, and raising young. I...
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