... achieved flight muscle temperatures that were near or on equal, opposite sides of the thermal performance curve. Honey bees vary their wing kinematics and metabolic heat production to thermoregulate, and how air temperature affects the flight metabolic rate of honey bees is predictable using a non-linear...

... to evaluate the maximum power output, wing kinematics and flight postures, and has been employed in a variety of avian species ( Altshuler et al., 2004 ; Sun et al., 2016 ; Wang et al., 2020 ; Kou et al., 2022 ). It enables us to explore the effects of mass loss induced by dietary restriction on underlying...

...Natsuki Harada; Takuma Oura; Masateru Maeda; Yayi Shen; Dale M. Kikuchi; Hiroto Tanaka ABSTRACT Penguins are adapted to underwater life and have excellent swimming abilities. Although previous motion analyses revealed their basic swimming characteristics, the details of the 3D wing kinematics, wing...

... Aerodynamics Flapping flight Wing kinematics Locomotion Weis Fogh mechanism Bristled wing Fringed wing Immersed boundary method Though hard to notice even when they hop, walk or fly, the smallest flying insects reported in the literature (with body lengths less than 1 mm) are of considerable...

... horizontal). In the present paper, wing and body kinematics of four freely hovering true hoverflies were measured using three-dimensional high-speed video. The measured wing kinematics was used in a Navier–Stokes solver to compute the aerodynamic forces of the insects. The stroke amplitude of the hoverflies...

... this effect seems to be small compared with vertebrates. * Author for correspondence( [email protected] ) 21 7 2009 2009 motor learning locomotor plasticity flight experience free-flight performance saccades wing kinematics force production fruit fly The study...

...Hao Wang; Noriyasu Ando; Ryohei Kanzaki SUMMARY By combining optical triangulation with the comb-fringe technique and dual-channel telemetry, wing kinematics and body attitudes accompanying muscle activities of free-flying male hawkmoths were recorded synchronously when they performed flight...

... flow insect flight motor control wing kinematics The sense of sight is crucial for navigating object-cluttered landscapes. For many creatures, including humans, visual cues are used to stabilize gaze on particular objects of interest, to stabilize head movements against body movements...

... integration wing kinematics optomotor motor control LPTC behavior flight Motion processing is an essential component of the control systems that animals use to find food resources, detect predators and identify conspecifics( Land, 1999 ). The visual system of insects has long served as a useful...

...Erica Feuerbacher; Jennifer H. Fewell; Stephen P. Roberts; Elizabeth F. Smith; Jon F. Harrison SUMMARY In this study we tested the effect of pollen and nectar loading on metabolic rate (in mW) and wingbeat frequency during hovering, and also examined the effect of pollen loading on wing kinematics...

... changes in body posture and wing kinematics of tethered locusts in response to stimulation with bat-like sounds. Locusts showed both negative and positive phonotaxis to this stimulus. Within a few wingbeats of stimulus onset (between 126 and 226 ms), locusts deflected their abdomens to one side...

...R. Meldrum Robertson; Amanda G. Johnson ABSTRACT Obstacles approaching in the flight path trigger postural and wing kinematic adjustments in tethered flying locusts. We sought to confirm that these behaviours were steering behaviours by measuring the changes in the flight forces associated...