A passerine spreads its tail to facilitate a rapid recovery of its body posture during hovering

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 72, 2012, Pages 1674-1684

  Su, Jian Yuan ^a   Ting, Shang Chieh ^a   Chang, Yu Hung ^a   Yang, Jing Tang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bird tail; Hovering; Pitch stabilization; Tail spreading

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY;

BODY OSCILLATIONS; BODY POSTURES; DOWNSTROKES; DOWNWARD FLOW; HOVERING; JET FLOW; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PHASE CORRELATION; RAPID RECOVERY; TAIL SPREADING;

RECOVERY;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PASSERINE; SONGBIRD; TAIL SPREADING;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; ZOSTEROPIDAE;

EID: 84863578839     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0737     Document Type: Article

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