ArticleRoyal Society open science2016
Airplane tracking documents the fastest flight speeds recorded for bats.
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- Body lift, drag and power are relatively higher in large-eared than in small-eared bat species.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017Article
- PRINCIPLES AND PATTERNS OF BAT MOVEMENTS: FROM AERODYNAMICS TO ECOLOGY.The Quarterly review of biology · 2017Review
- Inspiration for wing design: how forelimb specialization enables active flight in modern vertebrates.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017Review
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Abstract
The performance capabilities of flying animals reflect the interplay of biomechanical and physiological constraints and evolutionary innovation. Of the two extant groups of vertebrates that are capable of powered flight, birds are thought to fly more efficiently and faster than bats. However, fast-flying bat species that are adapted for flight in open airspace are similar in wing shape and appear to be similar in flight dynamics to fast-flying birds that exploit the same aerial niche. Here, we investigate flight behaviour in seven free-flying Brazilian free-tailed bats (
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