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They can even taste with their wings.
It has wings, it has eyes, it has antennae, its legs, complicated life history, it's a parasite, it has to fly around and find caterpillars to parasatize, but not only is its brain the size of a salt grain, which is comparable for a fruit fly, it is the size of a salt grain.
Humans may also extend their bodies into non-anthropomorphic structures, such as wings, controlling and feeling each wing movement within the nervous system.
Vultures circle in the air because they are too big to flap their wings and fly, so they soar.
Paul MacCready: The wings could touch together on top and not break.
But one day, I came home and my foster mother had made chicken wings for dinner.
So they returned to their villages and are told they're going to get sick and die soon, but five happy years, their logic goes, is better than 10 stuck in a high rise on the outskirts of Kiev, separated from the graves of their mothers and fathers and babies, the whisper of stork wings on a spring afternoon.
I did not clip her wings, and that's all.
And by tracking markers on an insect's wings, we can visualize the air flow that they produce.
Nobody knew the secret, but high speed shows that a dragonfly can move all four wings in different directions at the same time.
They have wings for flying when they get warm, but they use those same wings to flip over if they get destabilized.
Let's get into the butterfly's wings.
We have two of these wings, 65 square meters.
And in this next video, just like you see this bird, an eagle, gracefully coordinating its wings, its eyes and feet to grab prey out of the water, our robot can go fishing, too.
Slow-motion film or high-speed photography have shown us the beating of a hummingbird's wings and the course of a bullet through its target.
An ostrich stretches its wings over its nest to shade its young.
Eventually, their arms stretched out into wings.
When you hear the word symmetry, maybe you picture a simple geometric shape like a square or a triangle, or the complex pattern on a butterfly's wings.
And it also helps you build streamlined fins if you're a fish, aerodynamic wings if you're a bird, or well coordinated legs for running if you're a fox.
The few that are successful settle down in a suitable spot, lose their wings, and begin laying eggs, selectively fertilizing some using stored sperm they've saved up from mating.
Or in birds, you can make a bird switch between walking, at a low level of stimulation, and flapping its wings at high-level stimulation.
In mythological ancient Greece, soaring above Crete on wings made from wax and feathers, Icarus, the son of Daedalus, defied the laws of both man and nature.
Using feathers from the flocks that perched on the tower, and the wax from candles, Daedalus constructed two pairs of giant wings.
As he strapped the wings to his son Icarus, he gave a warning: flying too near the ocean would dampen the wings and make them too heavy to use.
Flying too near the sun, the heat would melt the wax and the wings would disintegrate.
When the heat from the sun melted the wax on his wings, Icarus fell from the sky.
And for anybody who wants to strap on some wings and go flying one day, Mars has a lot less gravity than on Earth, and it's the kind of place where you can jump over your car instead of walk around it.
You can take out one or two and the plane still flies, but you take out one too many, or maybe that one holding on the wings, and the whole system collapses.
We're a long way away from figuring out how to give a pig wings, for example.
The birds flee to safety all but the cassowary, who can’t clear the ground on her puny wings.
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