ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2019
Optic flow cues help explain altitude control over sea in freely flying gulls.
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- Optic flow in the natural habitats of zebrafish supports spatial biases in visual self-motion estimation.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
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- Optimization of dynamic soaring in a flap-gliding seabird affects its large-scale distribution at sea.Science advances · 2022Article
- Foraging on the wing for fish while migrating over changing landscapes: traveling behaviors vary with available aquatic habitat for Caspian terns.Movement ecology · 2022Article
- Floor and ceiling mirror configurations to study altitude control in honeybees.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Lidar-Based Navigation of Subterranean Environments Using Bio-Inspired Wide-Field Integration of Nearness.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Flight altitude dynamics of migrating European nightjars across regions and seasons.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Oscillations make a self-scaled model for honeybees' visual odometer reliable regardless of flight trajectory.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
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Abstract
For studies of how birds control their altitude, seabirds are of particular interest because they forage offshore where the visual environment can be simply modelled by a flat world textured by waves then generating only ventral visual cues. This study suggests that optic flow, i.e. the rate at which the sea moves across the eye's retina, can explain gulls' altitude control over seas. In particular, a new flight model that includes both energy and optical invariants helps explain the gulls' trajectories during offshore takeoff and cruising flight. A linear mixed model applied to 352 flights from 16 individual lesser black backed gulls (
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