{"id":33942,"date":"2020-03-12T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cupblog.bluefusesystems.com\/?p=33942"},"modified":"2020-03-12T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:17:43","slug":"watch-smelling-underwater-with-the-star-nosed-mole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2020\/03\/12\/watch-smelling-underwater-with-the-star-nosed-mole\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Smelling Underwater with the Star-Nosed Mole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Star-nosed moles are able to smell underwater by quickly exhaling and re-inhaling air bubbles as they search for prey. The bubbles are trapped close to the moles nostrils by a ring of tiny pink tentacles, which gives rise to the name &#8216;star-nosed&#8217;. The tentacles are the most sensitive known touch organ of any mammal.<\/p>\n<p>Research by Alexander Lee at Georgia Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2H6PKcINqY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This video is part of a collaboration between <a href=\"https:\/\/fyfluiddynamics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FYFD<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-fluid-mechanics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal of Fluid Mechanics<\/a> featuring a series of interviews with researchers from the APS DFD 2017 conference.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by FYFD, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and the UK Fluids Network. Produced by Tom Crawford and Nicole Sharp with assistance from A.J. Fillo.<\/p>\n<p>For more maths related fun check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tomrocksmaths.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star-nosed moles are able to smell underwater by quickly exhaling and re-inhaling air bubbles as they search for prey. The bubbles are trapped close to the moles nostrils by a ring of tiny pink tentacles, which gives rise to the name &#8216;star-nosed&#8217;. The tentacles are the most sensitive known touch organ of any mammal. Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":33946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2253],"tags":[4016,1137,347,4018,346,349,7141,6319,4129],"coauthors":[4015],"class_list":["post-33942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mathematics","tag-aps-dfd","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-fluid-mechanics","tag-fyfd","tag-jfm","tag-journal-of-fluid-mechanics","tag-star-nosed-mole","tag-surface-tension","tag-uk-fluids-network"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33942"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=33942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}