Comparing bird and human soaring strategies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4139-4143

  Kos, Zsuzsa Á ^a   Nagy, Máté ^a   Vicsek, Tamás ^a,b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group of HAS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE PILOT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD SOARING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARAGLIDING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORT; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FALCONIFORMES; FLYING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; FALCONIDAE;

ANIMALS; FALCONIFORMES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPORTS;

EID: 41949136041     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707711105     Document Type: Article

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