Animal Locomotion: A New Spin on Bat Flight
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Biologists and engineers have long struggled to understand the hovering flight of insects, birds, and bats. The enormous diversity of these groups would suggest they fly using a variety of mechanisms, but a new study shows that hovering bats use the same aerodynamic mechanisms as do moths and other insects.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 18 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008