Upwash exploitation and downwash avoidance by flap phasing in ibis formation flight

Nature

Volumn 505, Issue 7483, 2014, Pages 399-402

  Portugal, Steven J ^a   Hubel, Tatjana Y ^a   Fritz, Johannes ^a   Heese, Stefanie ^a   Trobe, Daniela ^a   Voelkl, Bernhard ^b,c,e   Hailes, Stephen ^a,d   Wilson, Alan M ^a   Usherwood, James R ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Waldrappteam ^*  (Austria)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AGGREGATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; PREDICTION; RESEARCH WORK; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; FLIGHT; FLYING; FORELIMB; GERONTICUS EREMITA; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HISTOGRAM; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY FEEDBACK; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BIRDS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GROUP PROCESSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; WING;

EID: 84892573893     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12939     Document Type: Article

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