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Study: Flamingos Use Their Beaks and Morphing Feet to Create Water Tornados for Prey Capture


New research led by the University of California, Berkeley and the Georgia Institute of Technology reveals that flamingos, far from being passive filter-feeders, are active predators that use flow-induced traps to capture agile invertebrates.

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