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James Ballance (left), bird curator at Zoo Atlanta, works with juveniles flamingos as Tech professor Young-Hui Chang looks on. (Photo by Lena Ting.) 
Lena TingThere was a eureka moment for School of Biological Sciences professor Young-Hui Chang during his research into why and how flamingos can stand and sleep on one leg. That revelation helped Chang and fellow researcher Lena Ting, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, describe in their new study how the flamingo's skeletal and muscle systems allow them to hold the one-legged pose with little muscle effort. Chang is also the director of the Comparative Neuromechanics Laboratory.
