Speaker 1: Time for stray science. Science.
Speaker 2: It's like weird science, but strange love.
Speaker 1: It comes out of a patience.
Speaker 2: Okay, did you ever notice how a flamingo eats? They
Speaker 2: call it captivating captivating leaf peculiar.
Speaker 1: That is, they bob their.
Speaker 2: Inverted heads in the water and do a wattle chochaw
Speaker 2: as they inch their way across shallow water. No, I
Speaker 2: don't want to look at that anymore. Geez, that is,
Speaker 2: I don't that's so unnecessary.
Speaker 1: Never get that out of you. No, and now I'm
Speaker 1: not have to do an extra sleep meditation.
Speaker 3: Let me give you one.
Speaker 1: Go ahead. I was gonna whisper it to you, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna whisper it to me? What was that going
Speaker 1: to be?
Speaker 3: Wattle jod job?
Speaker 1: I hate you and everything you are.
Speaker 3: The flamingos inched their way across the water, shallow water.
Speaker 3: They filter feed these little small crustaceans and insects and
Speaker 3: the microscopic algae and other tiny aquatic morsels.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: The guy who saw this is an integrative biologist at
Speaker 3: U SEE Berkeley, a guy named Victor Ortega Jimenez. He
Speaker 3: was on a trip with his wife and kid at
Speaker 3: the Atlanta zoo.
Speaker 2: Isn't that fascinating that a biologist would choose to go
Speaker 2: to a zoo as part of his vacation, Like.
Speaker 1: That's his work. He didn't want to get away from it, nerd.
Speaker 3: So he really he wanted to know what was going
Speaker 3: on beneath the water. You can't see what's going on
Speaker 3: down there, obviously, so he said he actually looked it
Speaker 3: up and couldn't find any description of what was happening
Speaker 3: in the scientific literature.
Speaker 1: I pissed off is Victor's wife.
Speaker 2: Like Victor is a biologist, he spends long days working
Speaker 2: at Berkeley studying animals. Victor does. Finally the wife is
Speaker 2: able to pull them away. They've got a little kid,
Speaker 2: and she's like, let's go to Atlanta. We can go
Speaker 2: to Magic City, we can do the things, and Victor's
Speaker 2: like cool. And day three of their trip, Victor's like,
Speaker 2: let's go to the zoo. And Victor sees this flamingo
Speaker 2: flamingoing and is captivated and then decides to spend hours
Speaker 2: doing what his wife pulled him away from at Berkeley.
Speaker 2: All she wants is to go get some wings at
Speaker 2: Magic City.
Speaker 1: And there's Victor.
Speaker 2: There's Victor obsessed over the flamingos, Yes with the kid.
Speaker 1: Several years of research.
Speaker 3: After this trip to the Atlanta Zoo, he and his
Speaker 3: colleagues arrive at a discovery described this week in the
Speaker 3: proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He said that
Speaker 3: flamingos are active predators. They don't just scoop up with
Speaker 3: water hoping that there's stuff in it. They actually harness
Speaker 3: the physics of how water flows to sweep up the
Speaker 3: prey and funnel it directly into their mouths. They're not
Speaker 3: passive filter feeders. Flamingos produce vortices. Already knows that.
Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, cool about the vortases. How about those
Speaker 2: lou will wings. Honey, we leave the zoo now, we
Speaker 2: can make it there for dinner.
Speaker 3: Zoo keepers in Nashville actually trained the birds to feed
Speaker 3: in a clear container, which allowed the scientists to record
Speaker 3: what was happening using the high speed cameras, even fluid
Speaker 3: dynamic methods with dye in the water and things like that.
Speaker 3: The scientists would generate oxygen bubbles and then add food
Speaker 3: particles to measure and visualize the flow of the water
Speaker 3: as the birds were feeding. They initially did this with
Speaker 3: live birds, and then they built a three D model
Speaker 3: of a flamingo head and used it more to more
Speaker 3: precisely explore the bird's biomechanics. Now, I don't know what. Yes,
Speaker 3: this is an amazing finding, But to what end do
Speaker 3: we now know more about our world around us? Yes?
Speaker 3: But does it feed more people? Does it help us
Speaker 3: in any way? That's the part I don't quite get
Speaker 3: about it. Doctor Ortegajimenez also said that what the birds
Speaker 3: do with their feet they explored using the mechanical flamingo
Speaker 3: foot and computational modeling, the dancing motion of their web
Speaker 3: dependages underwater produced more vortices that pushed even more particles
Speaker 3: towards their birds mouths as they fed upside down in
Speaker 3: the water. And they said, when you do these things together,
Speaker 3: the flamingos are highly specialized super feeding machines that use
Speaker 3: their entire body for feeding. I dated her in college.
Speaker 3: Ones another biologist and so grow biophysicistic cornell a not
Speaker 3: involved with the study, did say, this is an outstanding
Speaker 3: demonstration of how biological for and motion can control the
Speaker 3: surrounding fluid to serve a functional role.
Speaker 2: Angela no oh no, it's a different different.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a whole What you called Angela on Monday? Nothing?
Speaker 3: I said a name?
Speaker 1: Yeah what did I say? I think you were saying
Speaker 1: it to make me feel better. Oh yes, I was
Speaker 1: trying to diffuse the situation. Yeah, I appreciate that humor
Speaker 1: does it was really nice? Thank you?
Speaker 2: You know how I like name calling of others to
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Speaker 1: That is must listen. I'm glad. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: in the car for a while.
Speaker 3: Where are you going?
Speaker 1: Where am I going home? Maybe?
Speaker 2: Oh well, hey maybe in our secrets of me, I
Speaker 2: don't care. Maybe I haven't gotten Magic City Wings out
Speaker 2: of my head. Maybe I'm hitting the road, hitting the
Speaker 2: ten away from that pursuit.
Speaker 3: Guy, Atlanta?
Speaker 1: Does it go there?
Speaker 3: I think the forty goes to Atlanta. I mean, you
Speaker 3: could get a lot of the way there on the ten,
Speaker 3: but I.
Speaker 1: Think you've got to make it. You got to make
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