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2. Ornithopter - Wikipedia

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   Ornithopter. Pteryx Skybird radio-controlled ornithopter. An ornithopter (from Greek ornis, ornith- 'bird' and pteron 'wing') is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings. Designers sought to imitate the flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects. Though machines may differ in form, they are usually built on the same scale as flying ...

3. Eyespot (mimicry) - Wikipedia

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   An eyespot (sometimes ocellus) is an eye -like marking. They are found in butterflies, reptiles, cats, birds and fish. Eyespots could be explained in at least three different ways. They may be a form of mimicry in which a spot on the body of an animal resembles an eye of a different animal, to deceive potential predator or prey species.

4. Boids - Wikipedia

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   Boids. Boids is an artificial life program, developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds, and related group motion. His paper on this topic was published in 1987 in the proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. [1] The name "boid" corresponds to a shortened version of "bird-oid object", which refers to ...

5. Scientists Turned Dead Birds Into Zombie Drones to Spy ... - AOL

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   Scientists from New Mexico Tech designed a drone using a dead, taxidermied bird in an effort to make a lifelike birdbot. A realistic bird drone could help scientists monitor wildlife with minimal ...

6. How to turn your yard or garden into a habitat for birds ...

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   Pesticides: These chemicals harm native bees, butterflies and the insects that birds rely on as a food source and can potentially be dangerous to other wildlife, people and pets. Native plant ...

7. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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   An inexplicable virus with symptoms of delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, and ultimately death, which affects humans and birds and brings the world close to the brink of extinction while allowing insects to overpopulate. The illness is named after the first few cases, where the infected, lost in daydream-like hallucinations, wandered into ...