The pink creatures, whose cute image has graced our clothes, fashion accessories and home, behave a little differently in nature - flamingos stand on one leg, but no one was quite sure why they do it. All the previous theories have fallen into the water, science has an answer that will probably hold.
reasons, why flamingos stand on one leg, we searched in different things ‒ one of of theory defended the idea, Yes flamingos they stand on one leg because because in this way they regulate the temperature more easily. If with two feet in the water, would lost body temperature earlier. This theory would still believed, but apparently the time has come, to forget about her, because they are researchers found an alternative answer.
According to the new the study, published in the newspaper Royal Society Journal Biology Letters, it is it is less tiring for flamingos to stand on one leg than two. Researcher Young-Hui Chang performed a series of experiments on flamingo corpses together with other researchers, and found that corpses 'stand' more easily on one leg than both. Flamingo can hold on one leg your weight stably, without muscle activation. Flamingos that 'stood' on both legs, they failed maintain stable postures, which indicates a greater need for muscle activation. Researchers they watched live flamingos and came to the same finding.
The findings thus show that flamingos are held that way by gravity, which does not requires muscle power and large energy expenditures.
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