The saguaro cactus is a vital source of water in the desert; it functions like a living water barrel. This plant looks like an archetypical cactus with branches dramatically sticking out. Just like animals, plants can play a vital role as ecosystem engineers just like animals. The saguaro cactus is a unique keystone plant providingContinueContinue reading “The Night Flower – Saguaro Cactus”
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Four Rhino Biomimicry Projects – Feet, Horns, Skin and Ecobiomimicry
A biomimicry project using rhinos as inspiration can spark off great ideas and provide insight into ways to solve tricky design problems. Biomimicry can be classified at three levels: form, process and system. Rhino are ecosystem engineers, and they can be used as inspiration for system biomimicry, also called ecosystem biomimicry. Let’s start with theContinueContinue reading “Four Rhino Biomimicry Projects – Feet, Horns, Skin and Ecobiomimicry”