Bulletproof feathers : how science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology / edited by Robert Allen.

Contributor Allen, R. (Robert), 1947-

Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Description192 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Note:Aerodynamics of biological flight / Jeremy Rayner -- Marine dynamics / Jeannette Yen -- Humanlike robots / Yoseph Bar-Cohen -- Underwater bioacoustics / Tomonari Akamatsu -- Air acoustics / James Simmons -- Cooperative behavior / Robert Allen -- Ventilation / Steve Vogel -- New materials & natural design / Julian Vincent.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-189) and index.

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