Wind Tunnel for Birds

bgood writes "'What, a swallow, carrying a coconut? ...' The Department of Animal Ecology at the University of Lund in Sweden uses a modern low-speed wind tunnel specially crafted for bird experiments. The birds are trained to fly in the 'test-section' and the tunnel can be tilted up or down to simulate ascent and descent. This link contains plenty of detail, complete with bird pictures. For those of you who yearn to build your own (non-bird-compliant) wind tunnel, you can find instructions in this Scientific American article."

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Monty Python

[headkase]

What, a swallow, carrying a coconut?
Now as long as we don't run into the Knights that say Ni.

Bird exercise

[hackshack]

A bird treadmill! I love it!