Animal Enigmas
TED Radio Hour
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The Butt Flicker Is Like a Trampoline
The droplet is rested and cradled in this gorgeous butt flicker, about 100 microns in diameter. It's the most beautiful B you've seen, right? And then it cocks its butt flicker,. because it's got this tiny, resolent spring, and like a catapult it. The fact that it's doing all of this is baffling. This whole thing happens in 100 milliseconds. Your blink of an eye is like maybe 200 milliseconds, so it's, you know, faster than the blink of anEye.
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