{"592067":{"#nid":"592067","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Flamingo balancing act saves energy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFlamingos can \u0026quot;stand proud while having a doze,\u0026quot; says this BBC News story. How they do that may involve some unique flamingo biomechanics, according to a new \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/13\/5\/20160948\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on the elegant birds from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/young-chang\u0022\u003EYoung-Hui Chang\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/neuromechanicslab.emory.edu\/people\/ting-lena.html\u0022\u003ELena Ting\u003C\/a\u003E. Their work also suggests a possible reason why these birds engage in this habit. Chang is also the director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pwp.gatech.edu\/cnl\/\u0022\u003EComparative Neuromechanics Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-05-24 14:07:06","changed_gmt":"2017-05-24 16:46:40","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Georgia Power Research Center","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-40016816","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"592050":{"id":"592050","type":"image","title":"Lena Ting (left) and Young-Hui Chang with flamingos at Zoo Atlanta. (Photo by Rob Felt\/Georgia Tech)","body":null,"created":"1495568262","gmt_created":"2017-05-23 19:37:42","changed":"1495568262","gmt_changed":"2017-05-23 19:37:42","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225635","name":"Ting:Chang and flamingos.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Ting%3AChang%20and%20flamingos_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Ting%3AChang%20and%20flamingos_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":113987,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Ting%3AChang%20and%20flamingos_0.jpg?itok=CdZU5s_2"}}},"media_ids":["592050"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"82671","name":"Wallace Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"169203","name":"Young-Hui Chang"},{"id":"2266","name":"Lena Ting"},{"id":"174497","name":"flamingos"},{"id":"8963","name":"biomechanics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}