Biomimicry & the Internet of Animals
Episode description
Biomimicry, the science of learning from nature's genius, is helping us in areas as diverse as architecture, pollution, air conditioning, clothing, robotics, fire-resistant materials, flooding and leadership. The internet of animals is a vast, ever-growing network of data provided by mini-transmitters on everything from bees and birds to rodents and bats. It is providing us with a better understand the natural world. Through biomimicry and the internet of animals we'll discover how trees, limpets, pine cones, bats, sharks, spider webs, birds, beavers and termites – to name but a few – are helping us re-shape our world for the better.
With Nicola Peel and Martin Wikelski
Nicola Peel
https://www.thewillowslakesideretreat.com/
Martin Wikelski
www.ab.mpg.de/585424/the-internet-of-animals
www.nasa.gov/nasa-earth-exchange-nex/new-missions-support/internet-of-animals/