The cat's tongue and other mysteries of animal movement

by David Hu (Georgia Tech USA)

Friday 7 Dec 2018, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G.Marconi)

In this talk, I will show high-speed and time-lapse videos of animal movement. Cat's groom using scooped-shaped spines that inspired us to design a 3D-printed cat-inspired hairbrush. Dogs shake at 12 times earth's gravity, releasing 70 percent of the water on their fur in less than a second. Startup companies are raising black soldier fly larvae, whose hordes can eat a pizza in two hours, and are a promising way to solve the problem of food waste. A routine diaper change at home led to my winning the Ig Nobel Prize for showing how long an elephant takes to urinate.