ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2013
Collision-avoidance behaviors of minimally restrained flying locusts to looming stimuli.
Article in The Journal of experimental biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Responses of a locust visual interneuron correlate with simple and compound object motion within the vertical plane.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- A Looming Spatial Localization Neural Network Inspired by MLG1 Neurons in the CrabFrontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Complex object motion represented by context-dependent correlated activity of visual interneurones.Physiological reports · 2017Article
- Interaction of compass sensing and object-motion detection in the locust central complex.Journal of neurophysiology · 2017Article
- A sublethal dose of a neonicotinoid insecticide disrupts visual processing and collision avoidance behaviour in Locusta migratoria.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Simplified bionic solutions: a simple bio-inspired vehicle collision detection system.Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2017Article
- Background visual motion affects responses of an insect motion-sensitive neuron to objects deviating from a collision course.Physiological reports · 2016Article
- Responses of a pair of flying locusts to lateral looming visual stimuli.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Visually guided collision avoidance is of paramount importance in flight, for instance to allow escape from potential predators. Yet, little is known about the types of collision-avoidance behaviors that may be generated by flying animals in response to an impending visual threat. We studied the behavior of minimally restrained locusts flying in a wind tunnel as they were subjected to looming stimuli presented to the side of the animal, simulating the approach of an object on a collision course. Using high-speed movie recordings, we observed a wide variety of collision-avoidance behaviors including climbs and dives away from - but also towards - the stimulus. In a more restrained setting, we were able to relate kinematic parameters of the flapping wings with yaw changes in the trajectory of the animal. Asymmetric wing flapping was most strongly correlated with changes in yaw, but we also observed a substantial effect of wing deformations. Additionally, the effect of wing deformations on yaw was relatively independent of that of wing asymmetries. Thus, flying locusts exhibit a rich range of collision-avoidance behaviors that depend on several distinct aerodynamic characteristics of wing flapping flight.
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