Nashville Zoo flamingos reveal the oddball birds generate many types of vortices to eat. The swirls could be an inspiration to human engineers.

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Stomp dancing, head jerking, chattering, and skimming create swirling water patterns that direct brine shrimp and small ...

Bhamla and his colleagues decided to study the movements. It turns out, he says, the flamingos use their necks and beaks to create a vortex in the water to trap and slurp up their prey — an ...

The birds would submerge their heads in the water ... a dynamic duo of Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) from the Nashville Zoo. Thanks to their willingness to be fed in controlled ...

Jiménez and his colleagues discovered the birds’ deft use of physics while observing three Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) at Nashville Zoo in the U.S. They trained the birds to ...

Working with live flamingos at the Nashville Zoo and using high-speed cameras ... and microscopic animals toward the surface while the birds quickly retract their heads upward through the water ...

This behavior, observed in Chilean flamingos at the Nashville Zoo, has been the subject of extensive research ... By combining footage of real birds with experiments using 3D-printed models of ...

Rather than passively filter-feeding, the birds use their heads, beaks and feet to generate motion in the water that funnels invertebrates into their mouths ...

“Flamingos are super-specialized animals for filter feeding,” Ortega Jiménez said. “It’s not just the head, but the neck, their legs, their feet and all the behaviors they use just to effectively ...