Slow-motion mammals shaking themselves dry

This is not just another cute animal video compilation. This is science. David Hu and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta filmed 16 wet mammals as they shook themselves dry. Watch their slow-motion footage and find out how fast different species need to shake.

Nature News story: http://www.nature.com/news/scientists...

Original research paper: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.or...

• Category

  Science & Technology

[talldudegrad12]

Humans can still do this. You need wet "fur" the hair on your head works fine. The reason it's hard to shake the water off our bodies is because we don't have anything to trap the water against our skin. We can air dry in a couple of minutes, animals with fur can't. So they use momentum and whip out the water. Haha :)

[blogegog]

Shaking doesn't work when I try it :(.

[IINeoXerOII]

Science, bitch.

[MrSkyfaller]

Someone needs to edit this to dance music lol

[crystallize89]

27 shakes per second? o_O

[Patrick Reilly]

There is such a thing as centrifugal force. It is not an inertial force, which is why it is termed a "fictitious force" (a force witnessed in a non-inertial frame of reference that is a component of inertia in a corresponding inertial frame of reference) along with the Coriolis and Transverse forces.

Learn your physics, non-biologist.

[SuperniusPL]

Amazing video! I posted on supernius.pl

Great music, photos, bravo!

[Victor Alfonso Ramírez Muñoz]

Excelente el vide y una forma de conocer a nuestras mascotas

[Iloveyournipples]

@RoyAndlepad lol

[JustinHunt123]

Why am I watching this?....

[Castus88]

No such thing as centrifugal force. It's centripetal force. Lol biologists.