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Octopaminergic modulation of the visual flight speed regulator of Drosophila
... preferred flight speed set point may enter the visual sensory-motor cascade upstream of the LPTC network [H2b(i)], which implies that the functional role of the network is not limited to constructing ...
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Does the metabolic rate–flight speed relationship vary among geometrically similar birds of different mass?
... rate- flight speed relationship was acutely ...and flight styles, indicates that species size differences alone do not explain the previously unique metabolic power curve of the ...intermittent ...
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Visual control of flight speed in honeybees
... flight speed. The influence of optic flow was examined by recording flight speeds when the tunnel was lined with two different types of stationary pattern: vertical stripes and axial ...because ...
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Visual control of flight speed in Drosophila melanogaster
... of flight, which in a control model are typically represented as the plant ...visuomotor flight speed control are presumably highly complex and remain little ...of flight speed depends ...
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Flight speed and performance of the wandering albatross with respect to wind
... wind speed has a slope of ...air- speed polar ...ground speed of wandering albatrosses using the speed and relative direction of the wind ...ground speed to be dependent on three ...
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Flight speed and body mass of nectar feeding bats (Glossophaginae) during foraging
... on flight power that in larger animals restrict flight to slow speeds (see Pennycuick, ...foraging flight speeds within the small spatial scale of an animal’s feeding habitat as simulated during this ...
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Cage size and flight speed of the tobacco hawkmoth Manduca sexta
... on flight Our results clearly show that chamber size limits flight speed ...on flight speed has never been critically examined, but there is evidence in support of a chamber effect ...
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Effects of flight speed upon muscle activity in hummingbirds
... all flight speeds (Figs1 and ...forward flight, our results did not indicate a significant effect of flight speed in rufous ...of flight speed upon spike number must be ...
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Tegula function during free locust flight in relation to motor pattern, flight speed and aerodynamic output
... mean flight speeds of the intact and deafferented groups are shown in ...the speed of the sensory-intact animals increased significantly from ...tegulae, flight speeds over the first 15 days were ...
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Short Communication: Optimisation of the Flight Speed of the Little, Common And Sandwich Tern
... There were sufficient data for the sandwich terns to show significant regression between airspeed and wind effect for those birds flying only 12° from the wind direction; again this line[r] ...
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EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF FLIGHT SPEED ON DRAG FORCE IN THE AUTOGYRO MODEL
... Aerodynamic experimental investigation al- low to obtain aerodynamic characteristics, to verify and investigate the stability, and to verify hazardous flight conditions of aircraft or other re- search objects. One ...
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Gliding flight: speed and acceleration of ideal falcons during diving and pull out
... This paper introduces a mathematical model for the diving performance of mathematically defined ‘ideal falcons’, named after the useful ‘ideal gas’ of physical chemistry. Ideal falcons have a range of body masses, ...
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Interspecific Comparisons of Endothermy in Honey Bees (APIS): Deviations from the Expected Size Related Patterns
... mellifera came from three sources: first, previous studies of flight temperature and energetics by Heinrich 1979a,b, 1980a,6; second, measurements of flight speed and body mass by Seeley[r] ...
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Tactics to Stay Alive: Predation Risk Alters Body Condition and Escape Behaviour
... take-off speed and take-off angle (Kullberg et ...attack speed of a predator (Lind et ...vertical flight speed as a measure of flying capacity (Veasey et ...Vertical flight speed ...
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The metabolic power requirements of flight and estimations of flight muscle efficiency in the cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus)
... of flight. The mechanical power requirements of flight give us insight into the demands of flight in relation to flight speed; however, the generation of mechanical power by the ...
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Aerodynamic characteristics of the wings and body of a dragonfly
... gliding flight of a wing using a stroboscope, the flight speed of the wing V, the gliding angle g and the angle of attack a can be ...the flight path of a dragonfly wing in steady gliding ...
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A whispering bat that screams: bimodal switch of foraging guild from gleaning to aerial hawking in the desert long eared bat
... slower flight (Norberg and Rayner, ...higher flight speeds and agility (Gardiner et ...slower flight speed than during ...manoeuvrable flight in confined spaces, presumably because they ...
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Poor flight performance in deep diving cormorants
... the flight air speed of seabirds in known ecological contexts ...and flight air speed (Rayner, ...of flight speed from ground-based remote observations (Welham, 1994; Pennycuick, ...
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The role of lateral optic flow cues in hawkmoth flight control
... average flight speed in the asymmetrical optic flow ...average flight speed was the result of the linear integration of the translational optic flow perceived by both eyes, then hawkmoths that ...
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A songbird compensates for wing molt during escape flights by reducing the molt gap and increasing angle of attack
... reduce flight capacities, which could be detrimental when foraging or escaping ...escape flight behavior to compensate for the reduction in performance when flying with wing ...escape flight ...
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