The aerodynamic cost of head morphology in bats: Maybe not as bad as it seems

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Vanderelst, Dieter ^a,b   Peremans, Herbert ^b   Razak, Norizham Abdul ^c   Verstraelen, Edouard ^c   Dimitriadis, Greg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BAT; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; GRAVITY; HEAD MORPHOLOGY; HEAD SHAPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACROPHYLLUM MACROPHYLLUM; MICRONYCTERIS MICROTIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYOTIS DAUBENTONII; NONHUMAN; NOSELEAVED BAT; PHYLLOSTOMUS DISCOLOR; RHINOLOPHUS FORMOSAE; RHINOLOPHUS ROUXI; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECHOLOCATION; HEAD; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; MACROPHYLLUM MACROPHYLLUM; MICRONYCTERIS MICROTIS; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI; PHYLLOSTOMUS DISCOLOR; RHINOLOPHUS; RHINOLOPHUS ROUXII;

AIR;

AIR; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; HEAD; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT;

EID: 84928902109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118545     Document Type: Article

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