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Flamingos can "stand proud while having a doze," says this BBC News story. How they do that may involve some unique flamingo biomechanics, according to a new study on the elegant birds from School of Biological Sciences professor Young-Hui Chang and Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering professor Lena Ting. Their work also suggests a possible reason why these birds engage in this habit. Chang is also the director of the Comparative Neuromechanics Laboratory.