Unique technologies from nature

We often think that human beings are the smartest creatures. Maybe we are wrong because the reality is not so. You should know that all the high-tech gadgets that mankind has today simulate the behavior of animals in the natural world. Please discover the authenticity of this.

Bacteria use social networks to survive

While floating around an organism, M.xanthus cells connect with each other by using chain-like mucous membranes to create a physical social network . Besides using this network to avoid hunting and simultaneously destroying enemies of bacteria such as E. coli, bacteria also take advantage of this special network to "trap" prey like feces. protein element (because the network is made up of spherical bodies called "Vesticle" ). More surprisingly, knowing that many other bacteria also communicate in this way, the M.xanthus network becomes more special because it only opens to other M.xanthus bacteria (while the network The net of other bacteria is open for all bacteria. Like Facebook, the network of M. xanthus is also installed with security.

Ground insects use wireless signals to communicate

In the animal kingdom, competition for food sources is quite tough and to cope with this situation, some species of underground insects have developed a wireless communication system, giving lets the insects that live on the ground know that some plants already have owners.When possessing trees, underground insects will change the chemical composition of the leaves, causing the leaves to release their own environment signals, implying a message that "this land is already owned". . The system also supports parasitic wasps, when the animal lays its eggs inside the ground of insects and hornets will also know how to hunt for food in areas where there is no signal present. of underground insects.

Melanophila beetles have integrated infrared sensors

In August 1925, a large fire broke out and devastated an oil reservoir in Coalinga, California (USA). In the ashes, investigators found hundreds of Melanophila beetles (also called "bugs"), strangely this animal is not a resident of the area. Studies of this phenomenon have then concluded that the beetles have flocked here from a foothills in the Sierra Nevada, located more than 130km from the fire and they have also come from several forests that used to be suffered a fire some years earlier. This incident is a vivid illustration of the wonderful infrared sensors that the beetle has been fortunate to have been given by nature. The crust of the beetle is adorned with hundreds, thousands of spheres filled with water, approximately 0.02mm in diameter. When infrared radiation is in the air, the water in these spheres expands and changes the pressure in the beetle, as they fumble near the fires. But why is this bug equipped with this technology? Very simple, because they lay the larvae inside the freshly burnt trees.

Worker ants have the way to behave like internet protocols.(Photo: io9.com)

Worker ants have the way to behave like internet protocols

Internet traffic is managed by a protocol called TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) ; Its main task is to prevent Internet traffic congestion, and it will monitor the speed of special signals called "ack" ("thank you") received. These very fast signals are available online and so TCP will increase the speed of the data being transmitted. However, if "ack" responds slowly, TCP will gradually reduce the speed of the data being sent. Scientists have discovered that, when searching for food, worker ants behave similarly to TCP protocols. The ants will monitor the speed of worker ants: If the worker ants quickly bring the food back, it indicates that there are plenty of food out there, allowing other worker ants to leave the nest to help. However, if the worker ants are late, the ant colonies will understand that out there, there is not much food and will not signal other ants to drive away to feed.

Hornets are equipped with radar and generate solar electricity

The wasps live parasitic on wood is a very scary creature. These animals often lay eggs in trees, branches and other parts of trees. So to find larvae, wasps have developed a variant of ground penetrating radar (GPR). By using double antennas, they will check the bark very carefully, sending an electrical impulse to the wood inside. When the electrical impulse hits, it sends back the signals received at the ultrasound reception agency, which is built right at the bee's legs, forming an underground map in the wood layer of the tree. Indeed, this radar is very sensitive, they can receive feedback signals for objects that do not move. After locating the larvae in the wood, the bee will drill into the wood, fertilizing the larvae. The cycle of the resurrection cycle begins.

For scientists, Eastern hornets are a mystery. Unlike wasps and bees, when the outdoor temperature is hot, the bees appear to be very active, contrary to the notion that when the outdoor temperature is the hottest, animals will snuggle That is to preserve energy and body temperature to stabilize the body. Through a biological analysis of Eastern wasps, scientists at Tel Aviv University (Israel) discovered that brown streaks on the bee's body acted as a trap of light and refracted it. into two special beams of light, then light passes through a series of depressions in yellow streaks and mingles with natural Xanthopterin pigments to produce electric current. Wasps can turn solar radiation into electricity, they also apply electricity in burrows. More complicated, wasps also use this self-generated power source to operate a heat pump right inside its body like an air conditioner, allowing it to operate continuously under intense sunlight. of the sun still does not feel burning.