Kingfisher, Boxfish & Bacteria

Aug 11, 2010   //   by Editor   //   Basics  //  No Comments

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Published 01. 9.09 by Jaymi Heimbuch
Link to original source (boxfish slide) » treehugger.com
Made aware of by Twitter user @Garden27

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Biomimicry is the art, skill, intuition and science of turning towards nature as inspiration for solving our dilemmas. Nature has millions of years on us in perfecting forms and systems, and it’s about time we humans turn outward when we need answers. The field of biomimicry has already yielded hundreds of solutions. Gathered here in a slideshow are nine facinating examples of biomimicry at work.

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Recommendable Treehugger slide show with 9 concisely described examples of “Biomimicry in Action”

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Biognosis is a rare synonym for biomimicry, biomimetics, bionics, Bionik (German), bionique (French) and other expressions which describe the process of learning more about how nature copes successfully with diverse challenges and apply these findings to human technology, products, services and processes.

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