Scientists have won the lighthearted Ig Nobel prize for discovering animals travel better upside-down by hanging 12 rhinos for 10 minutes while other teams studied bugs in chewing gum stuck to pavementsFlying rhinos upside down under helicopters does the giant beasts no harm...and may help save them. Researchers who discovered this unlikely fact have been awarded one of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes. The lighthearted awards also went to teams that studied bugs in chewing gum stuck to pavements, and how to control cockroaches on submarines. The science humour magazine, Annals of Improbable Research, says its Ig Nobel awards should first make you laugh but then make you think. It’s an activity that increasingly has been used in African conservation work to shift rhinos between areas of fragmented habitat.

Source: Daily Mirror September 10, 2021 16:07 UTC