It's a question visitors ask staff all the time at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Bird House. The answer may surprise you!

If you can reach 10 seconds with your eyes closed, you’re doing well. Every time you practise the one leg stance, it is an opportunity to recalibrate your brain As you get older the balance ...

That said, the longer subjects could hold the stance, the better their individual bodies were faring. The researchers found that the length of time a subject could do the single leg stance was the ...

Our aim was to assess whether the ability to complete a 10- s one-legged stance (10-second OLS) is associated with all-cause mortality and whether it adds relevant prognostic information beyond ...

Find out in this one-minute video, where Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze walks us through the reasons behind the majestic bird’s one-legged stance. 3play_processed Ask Smithsonian Explore ...

with poor stability during single leg tasks commonly associated with lower limb non-contact injuries. Objective This study investigated stance leg frontal plane stability during a lateral bound task.

If you can reach 10 seconds with your eyes closed, you’re doing well. Every time you practise the one leg stance, it is an opportunity to recalibrate your brain As you get older the balance ...