It's interesting how much we can learn from the way natural selection has designed things.<p>This reminds me of the kid who built a solar tree which produced much more energy than normal 'linear' solar panels[0].<p>[0] <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/boy-genius-13-year-olds-solar-tree-produces-50-more-power/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/boy-genius-13-year-ol...</a>
Awesome. I love parrotlets. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgPRp0VaQ0s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgPRp0VaQ0s</a>
now, if they add some kind of smoke [non-damaging to birds of course] to visualize airflow or some modernized version using some safe laser of something like this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_photography" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_photography</a>
Similar flight studies have been done in flies:<p>Visually mediated motor planning in the escape response of Drosophila.
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982208010488" rel="nofollow">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982208...</a>