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Bio Inspiration - How nature influences design

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An Auzure kingfisher
This Azure kingfisher is only the second caught in the 30 years since Alan Leishman has been bird banding in Mount Annan.(Supplied: John Martin)

Honeycomb, butterfly wings, the Kingfisher beak .... These natural phenomenon have inspired some of the greatest design solutions.

Professor Mark Elgar is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Melbourne and explains the benefits of collaboration and inspiration between Biologists and Designers.

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Earth Sciences, Industrial Design
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