Take-off mechanics in hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
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Take-off mechanics in hummingbirds (Trochilidae).
Initiating flight is challenging, and considerable effort has focused on understanding the energetics and aerodynamics of take-off for both machines and animals. For animal flight, the available evidence suggests that birds maximize their initial flight velocity using leg thrust rather than wing flapping. The smallest birds, hummingbirds (Order Apodiformes), are unique in their ability to perfo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00889