“I’m used to studying things that walk or run, where you have to chase them across the force-plate or have them chase you,” says Chang. “The first question people ask is: How do they stand on one leg?” So he teamed up with Ting, an expert in postural control at Emory University, to find out.įirst, they went to Zoo Atlanta with a force-plate-a fancy 3-D bathroom scale that measures the forces a foot exerts in all directions. “When I take my kids to the zoo, the first thing you see is the flamingo exhibit,” says Chang, who’s based at Georgia Tech. You can pose a flamingo cadaver on one leg, and leave it there. And as Chang and Ting found, they can even keep balanced when dead. When they raise a leg, their body weight shifts in a way that naturally stabilizes the joints of their standing limb, so they can remain upright without any muscular activity. To maintain our balance, we constantly use our muscles to make tiny adjustments to our posture. Standing on one leg “is a challenging yoga posture, and a test of coordination that people use,” says Ting. “We weren’t expecting it to be stable, but it totally was.” And Chang probably looked like a fever-dream version of Mary Poppins, holding a dead flamingo aloft like the world’s unlikeliest umbrella. The flamingo looked almost like it was sleeping-one leg extended, the other bent, and the head tucked back into its feathers.
And then Ting said: Why don’t you try and pick it up by the leg?Ĭhang grabbed the bird by its shin and held it upright-and the leg snapped into place, becoming rigid and unyielding. With the bird lying flat on their table, they tried moving its legs this way and that. But when they started dissecting one, they couldn’t find anything. He and a fellow biologist Lena Ting suspected that the pink birds might have features on their legs that help lock their joints in place. Then again, counterpoint: I’ve cleaned up two separate instances of cat vomit this morning but I’ve never had a human being defecate on me.Young-Hui Chang can remember exactly when he realized how flamingos balance so effortlessly on one leg. There are lots of arguments that can be made about the rewards of parenthood and the joy of bringing a new life into this world and watching your baby grow into a person.
“But the photographer did an amazing thing - she reached down for a nappy, picked it up, then went to put it over Ted’s bum to stem the flow. “It’s not the kind of carpet that can be cleaned particularly easily,” said Ferguson, who stood in shock as the remnants dripped off his arm. “As I felt his stomach tense, in the back of your head you know he’s about to go poo, and then before you know it … he’s doing it.” “It happened within a second,” said Ferguson, a 26-year-old blogger from Kent in the United Kingdom. The father, 26-year-old Al Ferguson from Kent, United Kingdom spoke with Today about the photos, which have since gone viral, because projectile pooping.
I love how you can even see the satisfied little smile on its face. A British photographer was working on a newborn shoot with a father and his new baby when suddenly nature called - and since babies ain’t care whether they’re wearing a diaper or being held nude in their father’s arms, this is what happened.
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