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EMBO reports, 2007 Since the dawn of civilization, humans have envied their feathery companions for their ability to leap from the earth, escape gravity—and all earthly problems—and ascend to the skies. Of course, humans eventually made it into the skies too, albeit after a few millennia and rather inelegantly with the help of technology.
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Advances in Animal Flight Aerodynamics Through Flow Measurement
Evolutionary biology, 2012 Animal flight is a fruitful area of study for biologists because the abundance of extant and extinct forms radiating from a small handful of unrelated ancestral states provides such a rich resource filled with examples of variation and convergence ...
R. Bomphrey
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The Critical Role of Head Movements for Spatial Representation During Bumblebees Learning Flight
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Bumblebees perform complex flight maneuvers around the barely visible entrance of their nest upon their first departures. During these flights bees learn visual information about the surroundings, possibly including its spatial layout.
Charlotte Doussot +2 more
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Flight Zone as an Alternative Temperament Assessment to Predict Animal Efficiency
Proceedings, 2020 Animal temperament evaluation can be included in the cattle selection program also because of an existing correlation with performance. However, there are different assessment methods such as flight speed (time and speed that an animal takes to leave the
Mariano Parra +8 more
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Wolf Responses to Experimental Human Approaches Using High-Resolution Positioning Data
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Humans pose a major mortality risk to wolves. Hence, similar to how prey respond to predators, wolves can be expected to show anti-predator responses to humans. When exposed to a threat, animals may show a fight, flight, freeze or hide response. The type
Erik Versluijs +6 more
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Animal Aloft: The Origins of Aerial Behavior and Flight [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2011 Diverse taxa of animals exhibit remarkable aerial capacities, including jumping, mid-air righting, parachuting, gliding, landing, controlled maneuvers, and flapping flight. The origin of flapping wings in hexapods and in 3 separate lineages of vertebrates (pterosaurs, bats, and birds) greatly facilitated subsequent diversification of lineages, but both
Robert, Dudley, Stephen P, Yanoviak
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Effect of different finishing strategies and steer temperament on animal welfare and instrumental meat tenderness [PDF]
, 2021 The aim of this experiment was to evaluate the effect of different fattening systems from pasture to concentrate and temperament on animal welfare (AW) and meat quality (MQ). Eighty-four Hereford steers were randomly assigned to the following groups: T1,
Juan Manuel Soares de Lima +22 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 Aeroecology is an emerging discipline founded by Tom Kunz and colleagues in the early 2000s to address the challenges of studying animal flight in the lower atmosphere [...]
Jeffrey F. Kelly, Phillip M. Stepanian
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How might turbulence affect animal flight in a changing world?
Journal of Experimental BiologyThe influence of wind on animal flight costs and flight decisions is well established. Far less is known about the effects of turbulence. Indeed, a mechanistic framework allowing researchers to predict the costs and consequences of turbulence for ...
Emily L C Shepard
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Lessons from natural flight for aviation: then, now and tomorrow
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023 Powered flight was once a capability limited only to animals, but by identifying useful attributes of animal flight and building on these with technological advances, engineers have pushed the frontiers of flight beyond our predecessors’ wildest ...
C. Harvey +3 more
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