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Apr

Ever wonder how a bird with a beak shaped like this is able to bring its food upwards, against gravity, and into its throat? Researchers at MIT created a mechanical phalarope (also known as wadepiper) beak in order to demonstrate the capillary ratchet action at play when the bird feeds.

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