Aerial shaking performance of wet Anna's hummingbirds

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 70, 2012, Pages 1093-1099

  Ortega Jimenez, Victor Manuel ^a   Dudley, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Feather; Flexibility; Flight; Hovering; Manoeuvrability; Oscillation

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY;

FEATHER; FLEXIBILITY; FLIGHT; HOVERING; MANOEUVRABILITY; OSCILLATION;

ANIMALS;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEATHER; FLIGHT; FORELIMB; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMMINGBIRD; KINEMATICS; NONHUMAN; TAIL; TRUNK;

ANIMALIA; ANNA; TROCHILIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860778123     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0608     Document Type: Article

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