Upstroke wing flexion and the inertial cost of bat flight

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1740, 2012, Pages 2945-2950

  Riskin, Daniel K ^a,b   Bergou, Attila ^a   Breuer, Kenneth S ^a   Swartz, Sharon M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Discovery Channel Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bat; Flight; Inertial power; Pteropodidae; Upstroke wing flexion; Wing inertia

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOENERGETICS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMINERALIZATION; BODY MASS; BONE; FLIGHT; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHAPE; WING MORPHOLOGY;

PTEROPODIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863104017     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0346     Document Type: Article

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