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How ingenious animals have engineered air conditioning

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Are humans nature’s greatest architects? When we look elsewhere in nature, we find some pretty amazing animal architects. It's Ok to be Smart looks at how some of these species have mastered physics to install air conditioning in their homes!

Air acts like a fluid, so when it moves in such a way as to create an area of low air pressure, what happens to the air surrounding that low pressure area?

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