Thursday, April 22, 2021
Surfin :)
One never gets tired watching pelicans effortlessly surf above the waves. :)
UC San Diego mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Ian Stokes and adviser Professor Drew Lucas, of UC San Diego's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
found that pelicans can completely offset the energy they expend in flight by exploiting wind updrafts generated by waves through what is known as wave-slope soaring.
In short, by practicing this behavior, sea-birds take advantage of winds generated by breaking waves to stay aloft.
How cool is that? :)
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