JAKARTA, iNews.id– Perhaps you often see children-duckling which used to swim behind its mother and lined up neatly. Where’s the parent baby go, the ducklings must always follow behind him.
Study this was presented in the December 10 issue of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Where researchers report a new discovery why ducklings always swim behind their mothers.
Turns out kids swimming duck behind the parent to save energy or labor. They take advantage of the waves split by their mother swimming in front.
Previous research studied how much energy ducks burn while swimming. The study showed that ducklings conserve energy when swimming behind their mothers.
Zhiming Yuan, a naval scientist working at Strathclyde University Glasgow, Scotland, made a computer simulation of the waves that birds generate when swimming.
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