A much better write up of this, from one of the people who actually worked on it, was posted the other day: https://theconversation.com/neuromechanics-of-flamin

A much better write up of this, from one of the people who actually worked on it, was posted the other day: https://theconversation.com/neuromechanics-of-flamingos-amazing-feats-of-balance-78160 https://theconversation.com/neuromechanics-of-flamingos-amaz... And the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14408786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14408786 The Atlantic story linked here dumbs it down quite a bit.