hummingbirds
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How Bird Wings Inspire Drones, Wind Turbines And Other Technology
Is evolution the best inventor? With hundreds of millions of years of work and the natural world as its canvas, it would seem so.
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These Male Hummingbirds Manipulate The Sound Of Their Flying To Attract Mates
Birds have evolved some very strange features and behaviours in order to woo mates. Birds-of-paradise feathers are a natural vantablack. Bowerbirds build elaborate and colourful nests. And it seems that Costa’s hummingbirds control how females hear the sound of their dives.
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The Next Hummingbird You See Could Be A Spy
The military’s UAV fleet will soon be getting a small addition — DARPA’s hummingbird-shaped covert surveillance drone.