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Remote Sensing, 2020 The daytime atmospheric boundary layer is characterized by vertical convective motions that are driven by solar radiation. Lift provided by thermal updrafts is sufficiently ubiquitous that some diurnal birds and arthropods have evolved specialized flight
Phillip M. Stepanian +1 more
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Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 Groups of pelagic dolphins and whales (order Cetacea) regularly strand on beaches throughout the world. These strandings are referred to as mass stranding events (MSEs). MSEs have been observed for centuries, however the underlying causes remain unclear.
R. Zellar +4 more
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Movement Ecology, 2023 Background Millions of birds travel every year between Europe and Africa detouring ecological barriers and funnelling through migratory corridors where they face variable weather conditions.
Paolo Becciu +4 more
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Ecosphere, 2023 Surveying animal populations using drones (unoccupied aircraft systems [UAS]) provides numerous advantages; however, few best practices exist to survey animal communities with drones.
Landon R. Jones +7 more
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Animal Flight Dynamics I. Stability in Gliding Flight
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2001 Stability is as essential to flying as lift itself, but previous discussions of how flying animals maintain stability have been limited in both number and scope. By developing the pitching moment equations for gliding animals and by discussing potential sources of roll and yaw stability, we consider the various sources of static stability used by ...
Thomas, A, Taylor, G
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Animal Flight Dynamics II. Longitudinal Stability in Flapping Flight
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2002 Stability is essential to flying and is usually assumed to be especially problematic in flapping flight. If so, problems of stability may have presented a particular hurdle to the evolution of flapping flight. In spite of this, the stability of flapping flight has never been properly analysed.
Taylor, G, Thomas, A
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Insects, 2020 House flies (Musca domestica L.) are common synanthropic pests associated with confined animal operations, including dairy farms. House flies can cause substantial nuisance and may transmit human and animal pathogens.
Levi K. Zahn, Alec C. Gerry
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FMRFa receptor stimulated Ca2+ signals alter the activity of flight modulating central dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila melanogaster. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2018 Neuropeptide signaling influences animal behavior by modulating neuronal activity and thus altering circuit dynamics. Insect flight is a key innate behavior that very likely requires robust neuromodulation.
Preethi Ravi +2 more
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Beyond robins: aerodynamic analyses of animal flight [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2008 Recent progress in studies of animal flight mechanics is reviewed. A range of birds, and now bats, has been studied in wind tunnel facilities, revealing an array of wake patterns caused by the beating wings and also by the drag on the body. Nevertheless, the quantitative analysis of these complex wake structures shows a degree of similarity among all ...
Anders, Hedenström, Geoffrey, Spedding
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Lab-animal flights squeezed [PDF]
Nature, 2012 Two biggest cargo carriers affirm that they will not ship mammals and non-human primates, as activist pressure mounts to stop research-animal airlifts.
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