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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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Take-off mechanics in hummingbirds (Trochilidae) [PDF]
, 2004 Initiating flight is challenging, and considerable effort has focused on understanding the energetics and aerodynamics of take-off for both machines and animals.
Altshuler, Douglas L. +2 more
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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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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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A new low-turbulence wind tunnel for animal and small vehicle flight experiments [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Our understanding of animal flight benefits greatly from specialized wind tunnels designed for flying animals. Existing facilities can simulate laminar flow during straight, ascending and descending flight, as well as at different altitudes. However, the
Daniel B. Quinn +3 more
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Water bathing alters the speed-accuracy trade-off of escape flights in European starlings [PDF]
, 2009 Birds of most species regularly bathe in water, but the function of this behaviour is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that water bathing is important in feather maintenance, and hence should enhance flight performance. We manipulated European starlings'
Asher, L +3 more
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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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Dynamic echo information guides flight in the big brown bat
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016 Animals rely on sensory feedback from their environment to guide locomotion. For instance, visually guided animals use patterns of optic flow to control their velocity and to estimate their distance to objects (e.g. Srinivasan et al. 1991, 1996). In this
Michaela eWarnecke +4 more
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Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2022 The mouse ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) is both necessary and sufficient for defensive responses to predator and social threats. Defensive behaviors typically involve cautious approach toward potentially threatening stimuli aimed at obtaining ...
Ryan Rahy +2 more
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