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Limitations on Animal Flight Performance [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 1991 ABSTRACT Flight performance seems to change systematically with body size: small animals can hover and fly over a wide range of speeds, but large birds taxi for takeoff and then fly over a narrow speed range. The traditional explanation for this is that the mass-specific power required for flight varies with speed according to a U-shaped
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White-tailed deer response to vehicle approach: evidence of unclear and present danger. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The fundamental causes of animal-vehicle collisions are unclear, particularly at the level of animal detection of approaching vehicles and decision-making. Deer-vehicle collisions (DVCs) are especially costly in terms of animal mortality, property damage,
Bradley F Blackwell +2 more
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Constructing a Stochastic Model of Bumblebee Flights from Experimental Data [PDF]
, 2013 PMCID: PMC3592844This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Flight morphological variations and its consequences on animal performance are common in winged insects. In the butterfly Heliconius charithonia, sex-related differences in the wing morphological design have been described resulting in differences in ...
Velia I Ramos-Pérez +4 more
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Animal Locomotion: Near-Ground Low-Cost Flights [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 Flying animals expend considerable energy. A new study reveals that bats reduce their flight power requirements by nearly a third when flying in 'ground effect' close to the surface.
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Disordered but rhythmic—the role of intrinsic protein disorder in eukaryotic circadian timing
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Unstructured domains known as intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are present in nearly every part of the eukaryotic core circadian oscillator. IDRs enable many diverse inter‐ and intramolecular interactions that support clock function. IDR conformations are highly tunable by post‐translational modifications and environmental conditions, which ...
Emery T. Usher, Jacqueline F. Pelham
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Rethinking the Age of Zoo Reform
Humanimalia, 2016 Lisa Uddin, Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xi + 277 pp. with 8 color plates.
Takashi Ito
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Adaptive Bird-like Genome Miniaturization During the Evolution of Scallop Swimming Lifestyle
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, 2022 Genome miniaturization drives key evolutionary innovations of adaptive traits in vertebrates, such as the flight evolution of birds. However, whether similar evolutionary processes exist in invertebrates remains poorly understood. Derived from the second-
Yuli Li +10 more
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Of hummingbirds and helicopters: Hovering costs, competitive ability, and foraging strategies [PDF]
, 2004 Wing morphology and flight kinematics profoundly influence foraging costs and the overall behavioral ecology of hummingbirds. By analogy with helicopters, previous energetic studies have applied the momentum theory of aircraft propellers to estimate ...
Altshuler, Douglas L. +2 more
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Mechanisms and Implications of Animal Flight Maneuverability [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2002 Accelerations and directional changes of flying animals derive from interactions between aerodynamic force production and the inertial resistance of the body to translation and rotation. Anatomical and allometric features of body design thus mediate the rapidity of aerial maneuvers.
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