bat flight
Echo interval and not echo intensity drives bat flight behavior in structured corridors
... echolocating bat relies on auditory processing of echo returns to represent its ...influence bat navigation, but the acoustic basis for flight path selection remains ...a flight corridor with ...
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Bat flight: aerodynamics, kinematics and flight morphology
... powered flight more than 50 million years ago. The modern bat is an efficient flyer and recent research on bat flight has revealed many intriguing ...The bat wing and its skeleton ...
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Bat Flight and Zoonotic Viruses
... of bat flight physiology ...of bat viruses and nonbat viruses grown in culture to altered and variable thermal regimes typical of the body temperatures of bats during flight, as well as bats ...
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Bat flight with bad wings: is flight metabolism affected by damaged wings?
... the flight arena, and this may indicate that the flight ability of bats is indeed constrained by a damaged trailing edge of the ...circular flight arena confirmed that the number of aerial manoeuvres ...
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The Physiology and Energetics of Bat Flight
... On the basis of this assumption we can calculate that since the oxygen consumption increased about four times from rest immediately before flight to flight Table 1 while the respiratory [r] ...
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Wake structure and wing kinematics: the flight of the lesser dog faced fruit bat, Cynopterus brachyotis
... bird flight in the engineering and biological communities over the last two decades (Dickinson and Gotz, 1996; Ellington, 1999; Usherwood and Ellington, 2002; Sane, 2003; Spedding et ...of bat flight ...
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Echo acoustic flow affects flight in bats
... and bat flight path ...each flight, the bat was rewarded from the feeder ...example flight paths from bat 6 for lateral walls with orthogonal orientation to each other (blue ...
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Flight metabolism in relation to speed in Chiroptera: testing the U shape paradigm in the short tailed fruit bat Carollia perspicillata
... individual bat could be flying somewhat faster, advancing with respect to a stationary point in the test ...tunnel flight is not identical to free flight in ...tunnel flight incurs an ...
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Kinematics of flight and the relationship to the vortex wake of a Pallas' long tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina)
... different flight speeds and makes it easier to draw conclusions and create models that hopefully will increase our understanding of aerodynamic mechanisms of ...one bat species and should therefore be ...
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Vertical variation in flight activity of the lesser short-tailed bat in podocarp and beech forests, Central North Island, New Zealand
... the flight activity of lesser short-tailed bats (Mystacina ...compare bat activity at three heights – top ...automatic bat monitors during January to March 2005. The number of bat passes was ...
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How do tiger moths jam bat sonar?
... three-dimensional flight paths and echolocation behavior of big brown bats ( Eptesicus fuscus ) attacking ...a flight room over seven consecutive nights to determine the acoustic mechanism of the ...
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The synchronisation of signal emission with wingbeat during the approach phase in soprano pipistrelles (Pipistrellus pygmaeus)
... search flight, it is probable that each wingbeat cycle is synchronised with one respiratory cycle during the approach sequence (Kalko, ...during flight could also facilitate the production of several ...
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Effects of competitive prey capture on flight behavior and sonar beam pattern in paired big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus
... brown bat uses a constant absolute target direction (CATD) flight strategy, which is nearly time optimal, to intercept its insect prey (Ghose et ...brown bat applies the same strategy when ...
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Flight and echolocation behaviour of whiskered bats commuting along a hedgerow: range dependent sonar signal design, Doppler tolerance and evidence for `acoustic focussing'
... in flight, which means that, compared with the signals they produce, the echoes they receive are compressed and their pitch is increased due to Doppler effects that are related to flight ...For bat ...
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Routes of Hendra virus excretion in naturally infected flying-foxes: implications for viral transmission and spillover risk
... individual bat and flying-fox population level [13, 39], and detection of HeV RNA in serum is at least con- sistent with the possible reactivation of a latent infection and haematogenous dissemination of virus to ...
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A Comparison between Bat Algorithm and Cuckoo Search for Path Planning
... Between Bat and Cuckoo search Bat algorithm provides better results in terms of iterations and elapsed time as shown in table 1 and 2 in previous ...execution Bat algorithm provide optimal path as ...
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The cost of hovering and forward flight in a nectar feeding bat, Glossophaga soricina, estimated from aerodynamic theory
... hovering bat. Any distortion of the momentum jet below the bat may, therefore, have been much less than in the example above ...estimating flight costs, under uniform ...
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Coordination of bat sonar activity and flight for the exploration of three dimensional objects
... that bat 3 performed much worse in the active-acoustic AM ...this bat obviously gained much less object information in the active-acoustic AM condition than in the passive-acoustic AM ...bats, bat 3 ...
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The dynamics of flight initiating jumps in the common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus
... Schmidt, 1988). We have shown that the pollices can have a substantial effect on the impulse imparted to the substratum during a jump. There are other factors of thumb function during jumping that must also be ...
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Dietary sugar as a direct fuel for flight in the nectarivorous bat Glossophaga soricina
... One factor limiting the use of exogenous sugars during exercise in humans is the capacity for carbohydrate absorption by the intestine (Hawley et al., 1992; Jentjens et al., 2004a). Rates of sugar absorption by ...
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