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111. Smart swarming: bacteria
"Here we study collective navigation of bacteria-inspired smart agents in complex terrains, with adaptive interactions that depend on performance. More specifically, each agent adjusts its interactions with the other agents according to its local ...
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112. Sticky berries adhere: Australian mistletoe
"As a group, the Australian mistletoes have developed a rather more specialised system of transport than that employed by their European relative. One particular bird, the mistletoe bird, eats little other than mistletoe berries. There are so many...
113. Insect walks on water.
“The legs of water striders have numerous oriented micrometer-scale needle-shaped setae on the legs, which are arranged at an inclined angle of about 20° from the surface. Interestingly, many elaborate nanoscale grooves are found on each...
114. Multiple mechanisms help flies adhere.
"A fly can easily walk on the most slippery surfaces or stand still on a ceiling for hours. Its feet are better equipped to hold on to glass, walls and ceilings than those of a climber. If the retractable claws are not enough, suction pads on its ...
115. Water vapor harvesting: Namib desert beetle
The Namib Desert is characterized by high temperatures, strong winds, and negligible rainfall, but it does experience nocturnal and early morning fogs that move in from the Atlantic Ocean. The fog droplets are unusually small, about 1-40 microns i...
116. Nasal turbinates reduce water loss: northern elephant seal
"Elephant seals fast completely from food and water for 1-3 months during terrestrial breeding. Temporal countercurrent heat exchange in the nasal passage reduces expired air temperature (Te) below body temperature (Tb). At a mean ambient temperat...
117. Suckers steal water and nutrients: Australian Christmas tree
"The fact is that the Christmas tree steals the water that its neighbours have managed to extract from the parched ground before they themselves are able to make use of it. A pair of sharp woody pincers then develops from the side of the collar op...
118. The Secret of Super-Fast Shark Swimming
Researchers have discovered what makes the shark almost impossible to outswim. By using an engineering imaging technique, researchers have discovered that as a shark’s tail swings from side to side, it creates twice as many jets of ...
119. Tree accumulates, releases water.
"In the ancient histories of travellers in America. and also by Thevet in his Cosnographia, mention is made of a tree which attracted the clouds from the heavens, end converted them into rain in the dry deserts. These relations have been considere...
120. Legs 'row' across water: fishing spider
"What happens is that the leg and dimple (the latter from the downward weight transferred by the leg) act as a unit. Both move rearward as the animal pushes, and the rearward drag of the unit generates the forward thrust (fig. 5.8b). (Moving a dim...
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