Eagles Smeegles

Bangalore has a lot of eagles..Look out of my window on the 4th floor, and at any one time u'll see 6-7 eagles flying about. (unfortunately the digi-cam ain't working, else i'd have had a pic or two)

I learnt in my Animal Locomotion course that birds (particularly birds of prey that scan the ground) enter thermal convection currents and ride on the updrafts, which take them high up..They don't have to spend much energy flying this way...and effortlessly rise up. Coming down is a matter of stepping out of the convec circles, and letting gravity do its work.

Physics does get kinda cool when Biology comes in, eh?

Ok, end of lunch break!