30 Animals That Made Us Smarter - Bat and unassisted flight

Imagine flapping your arms and flying. Could we do that based on how the bat does it? Leonardo Da Vinci was fascinated by the flight of bird and bats and used to sketch ideas in notebooks for a flying machine called the Ornithopter.
With Patrick Aryee.

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Published on Monday, 5th August 2019.

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