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<v Speaker 1>Time for stray science. Science.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like weird science, but strange love.

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<v Speaker 1>It comes out of a patience.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, did you ever notice how a flamingo eats? They

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<v Speaker 2>call it captivating captivating leaf peculiar.

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<v Speaker 1>That is, they bob their.

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<v Speaker 2>Inverted heads in the water and do a wattle chochaw

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<v Speaker 2>as they inch their way across shallow water. No, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to look at that anymore. Geez, that is,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't that's so unnecessary.

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<v Speaker 1>Never get that out of you. No, and now I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not have to do an extra sleep meditation.

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<v Speaker 3>Let me give you one.

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<v Speaker 1>Go ahead. I was gonna whisper it to you, so

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna whisper it to me? What was that going

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<v Speaker 1>to be?

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<v Speaker 3>Wattle jod job?

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<v Speaker 1>I hate you and everything you are.

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<v Speaker 3>The flamingos inched their way across the water, shallow water.

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<v Speaker 3>They filter feed these little small crustaceans and insects and

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<v Speaker 3>the microscopic algae and other tiny aquatic morsels.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 3>The guy who saw this is an integrative biologist at

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<v Speaker 3>U SEE Berkeley, a guy named Victor Ortega Jimenez. He

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<v Speaker 3>was on a trip with his wife and kid at

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<v Speaker 3>the Atlanta zoo.

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<v Speaker 2>Isn't that fascinating that a biologist would choose to go

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<v Speaker 2>to a zoo as part of his vacation, Like.

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<v Speaker 1>That's his work. He didn't want to get away from it, nerd.

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<v Speaker 3>So he really he wanted to know what was going

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<v Speaker 3>on beneath the water. You can't see what's going on

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<v Speaker 3>down there, obviously, so he said he actually looked it

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<v Speaker 3>up and couldn't find any description of what was happening

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<v Speaker 3>in the scientific literature.

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<v Speaker 1>I pissed off is Victor's wife.

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<v Speaker 2>Like Victor is a biologist, he spends long days working

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<v Speaker 2>at Berkeley studying animals. Victor does. Finally the wife is

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<v Speaker 2>able to pull them away. They've got a little kid,

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<v Speaker 2>and she's like, let's go to Atlanta. We can go

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<v Speaker 2>to Magic City, we can do the things, and Victor's

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<v Speaker 2>like cool. And day three of their trip, Victor's like,

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<v Speaker 2>let's go to the zoo. And Victor sees this flamingo

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<v Speaker 2>flamingoing and is captivated and then decides to spend hours

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<v Speaker 2>doing what his wife pulled him away from at Berkeley.

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<v Speaker 2>All she wants is to go get some wings at

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<v Speaker 2>Magic City.

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<v Speaker 1>And there's Victor.

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<v Speaker 2>There's Victor obsessed over the flamingos, Yes with the kid.

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<v Speaker 1>Several years of research.

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<v Speaker 3>After this trip to the Atlanta Zoo, he and his

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<v Speaker 3>colleagues arrive at a discovery described this week in the

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<v Speaker 3>proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He said that

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<v Speaker 3>flamingos are active predators. They don't just scoop up with

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<v Speaker 3>water hoping that there's stuff in it. They actually harness

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<v Speaker 3>the physics of how water flows to sweep up the

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<v Speaker 3>prey and funnel it directly into their mouths. They're not

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<v Speaker 3>passive filter feeders. Flamingos produce vortices. Already knows that.

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<v Speaker 2>She's like, yeah, cool about the vortases. How about those

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<v Speaker 2>lou will wings. Honey, we leave the zoo now, we

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<v Speaker 2>can make it there for dinner.

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<v Speaker 3>Zoo keepers in Nashville actually trained the birds to feed

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<v Speaker 3>in a clear container, which allowed the scientists to record

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<v Speaker 3>what was happening using the high speed cameras, even fluid

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<v Speaker 3>dynamic methods with dye in the water and things like that.

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<v Speaker 3>The scientists would generate oxygen bubbles and then add food

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<v Speaker 3>particles to measure and visualize the flow of the water

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<v Speaker 3>as the birds were feeding. They initially did this with

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<v Speaker 3>live birds, and then they built a three D model

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<v Speaker 3>of a flamingo head and used it more to more

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<v Speaker 3>precisely explore the bird's biomechanics. Now, I don't know what. Yes,

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<v Speaker 3>this is an amazing finding, But to what end do

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<v Speaker 3>we now know more about our world around us? Yes?

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<v Speaker 3>But does it feed more people? Does it help us

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<v Speaker 3>in any way? That's the part I don't quite get

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<v Speaker 3>about it. Doctor Ortegajimenez also said that what the birds

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<v Speaker 3>do with their feet they explored using the mechanical flamingo

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<v Speaker 3>foot and computational modeling, the dancing motion of their web

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<v Speaker 3>dependages underwater produced more vortices that pushed even more particles

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<v Speaker 3>towards their birds mouths as they fed upside down in

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<v Speaker 3>the water. And they said, when you do these things together,

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<v Speaker 3>the flamingos are highly specialized super feeding machines that use

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<v Speaker 3>their entire body for feeding. I dated her in college.

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<v Speaker 3>Ones another biologist and so grow biophysicistic cornell a not

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<v Speaker 3>involved with the study, did say, this is an outstanding

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<v Speaker 3>demonstration of how biological for and motion can control the

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<v Speaker 3>surrounding fluid to serve a functional role.

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<v Speaker 2>Angela no oh no, it's a different different.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's a whole What you called Angela on Monday? Nothing?

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<v Speaker 3>I said a name?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah what did I say? I think you were saying

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<v Speaker 1>it to make me feel better. Oh yes, I was

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<v Speaker 1>trying to diffuse the situation. Yeah, I appreciate that humor

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<v Speaker 1>does it was really nice? Thank you?

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<v Speaker 2>You know how I like name calling of others to

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<v Speaker 2>make myself feel better. The John Cobalt shows coming up next.

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<v Speaker 2>I did not know this, but the listener who won

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<v Speaker 2>the auction item as to be co host with John

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<v Speaker 2>is coming in today.

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<v Speaker 1>That is must listen. I'm glad. I'm going to be

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<v Speaker 1>in the car for a while.

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<v Speaker 3>Where are you going?

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<v Speaker 1>Where am I going home? Maybe?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh well, hey maybe in our secrets of me, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't care. Maybe I haven't gotten Magic City Wings out

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<v Speaker 2>of my head. Maybe I'm hitting the road, hitting the

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<v Speaker 2>ten away from that pursuit.

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<v Speaker 3>Guy, Atlanta?

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<v Speaker 1>Does it go there?

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<v Speaker 3>I think the forty goes to Atlanta. I mean, you

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<v Speaker 3>could get a lot of the way there on the ten,

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<v Speaker 3>but I.

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<v Speaker 1>Think you've got to make it. You got to make

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<v Speaker 1>a lane change at some point.

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<v Speaker 3>If you missed any part of the show, go back

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<v Speaker 3>it's going to be posted. So if you subscribe to

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, if you subscribe to one thing only,

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<v Speaker 2>it should be the podcast, just because there's so much

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<v Speaker 2>fun stuff in there, like the new podcast that comes

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<v Speaker 2>out on Saturdays.

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<v Speaker 1>Guys, it's really dirty. It's something far pretty high there.

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<v Speaker 1>It's really it is.

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<v Speaker 2>And I get to pick the topic this week and

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<v Speaker 2>guess what it is really dirty?

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<v Speaker 1>The wattle Chatcha