{"592068":{"#nid":"592068","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Mystery solved: How flamingos can sleep while standing on one leg","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThere was a eureka\u0026nbsp;moment for\u0026nbsp;School of Biological Sciences professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/young-chang\u0022\u003EYoung-Hui Chang\u003C\/a\u003E during his research into why and how flamingos can stand and sleep on one leg. That revelation helped Chang and fellow researcher \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/neuromechanicslab.emory.edu\/people\/ting-lena.html\u0022\u003ELena Ting\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, describe in their new \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/13\/5\/20160948\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;how the flamingo\u0026#39;s skeletal and muscle systems allow them to hold the one-legged pose\u0026nbsp;with little muscle effort. Chang is also the director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pwp.gatech.edu\/cnl\/\u0022\u003EComparative Neuromechanics Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-05-24 14:24:09","changed_gmt":"2017-05-24 16:45:25","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"graduation 2023","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/05\/24\/mystery-solved-how-flamingos-can-sleep-while-standing-on-one-leg\/?utm_term=.e6cfa4a58b65","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":{"592049":{"id":"592049","type":"image","title":"James Ballance (left), bird curator at Zoo Atlanta, works with juveniles flamingos as Tech professor Young-Hui Chang looks on. (Photo by Lena Ting.)  ","body":null,"created":"1495563118","gmt_created":"2017-05-23 18:11:58","changed":"1495563171","gmt_changed":"2017-05-23 18:12:51","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225634","name":"Flamingo study #1.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Flamingo%20study%20%231.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Flamingo%20study%20%231.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":914851,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Flamingo%20study%20%231.JPG?itok=5vlcdvzW"}},"592044":{"id":"592044","type":"image","title":"Lena Ting","body":null,"created":"1495562306","gmt_created":"2017-05-23 17:58:26","changed":"1495562306","gmt_changed":"2017-05-23 17:58:26","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225630","name":"Lena Ting .png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lena%20Ting%20.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lena%20Ting%20.png","mime":"image\/png","size":332880,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lena%20Ting%20.png?itok=N9ohu3Za"}}},"media_ids":["592049","592044"],"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":""}}}