Animal Locomotion: A New Spin on Bat Flight

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Dickinson, Michael ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BAT; BIRD; FLYING; FORELIMB; INSECT; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHIROPTERA; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; INSECTS; LOCOMOTION; WING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 44349116714     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.03.048     Document Type: Short Survey

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