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Dear Reader,
Nature never fails to amaze … and instruct. Researchers noticed that “hummingbirds seem to be able to switch between some internal speed clock and a flight mode that incorporates external signals. Indeed, hummingbird brains have evolved to make rapid transitions from visual signals to motor outputs,” reported Scientific American. This discovery is expected to help drone experts improve their technology.
It’s an example of something called biomimicry, which Bluedot outlined in our In A Word feature. Janine Benyus, creator of the Biomimicry
Institute, explained that biomimicry is the practice of noticing how nature solves problems and then applying that design to innovations all around us.
Benyus came up with some valuable observations of the natural world that provide something of a template for how we live in the world. They include:
Nature runs on sunlight.
Nature uses only the energy it needs.
Nature fits form to function.
Nature recycles everything.
Nature rewards cooperation.
Nature banks on diversity.
Nature demands local expertise.
Nature curbs excesses from within.
Nature taps the power of limits.
Biomimicry, she said, comes down to paying attention to the genius of the natural world and following its lead.
Copycattily,
Dot
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