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May 19, 2008
How birds make water defy gravity
A team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has shown that some shorebirds use their long, thin beaks in a tweezering motion to make prey-bearing water droplets rise upwards so they can be consumed.
the birds point their beaks downward, gravity must be overcome to get those droplets from the tip of the bird’s long beak to its mouth.
Until now, scientists have been puzzled as to how that happens.
Full Story and cool Videos HERE
Posted by sue at May 19, 2008 12:02 PM