# Why This Gravitational Waves News Is a Big Deal  ## About - Author: Short Wave - Title: Why This Gravitational Waves News Is a Big Deal - Tags: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/6f157b71-9429-40eb-a28b-da704a5fe23b ## Highlights > Natural world inspiration for animal limb repurposing Transcript: Speaker 3 I mean, it sounds like it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a cat. Speaker 1 Yeah, like there's a whole natural world theme here. In fact, the scientists say they drew inspiration from all these different ways animals repurpose their limbs. Some they mentioned as inspiration in the paper were mere cats standing on their hind legs to kind of scout, birds that use their wings to crawl up inclines, sea lions that use their flippers to swim, but also to walk on land. ([Time 0:03:05](https://share.snipd.com/snip/ccc29185-bde6-4e00-b260-15ac08c8c17b)) ---