Aerial righting reflexes in flightless animals

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 937-943

  Jusufi, Ardian ^a   Zeng, Yu ^a   Full, Robert J ^a   Dudley, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FLYING; LIZARD; MECHANICAL TORSION; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RIGHTING REFLEX; ROTATION; TAIL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LIZARDS; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; REFLEX, RIGHTING; ROTATION; TAIL; TORSION, MECHANICAL;

EID: 82255164178     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icr114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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