... extension behaviours of the two birds, with very similar morphologies, under identical conditions supports this hypothesis. In raptors, learning appears to play an important role in flight using environmental flows and to be particularly important for agile foraging techniques ( Ruaux et al., 2020...

... work is properly attributed. Summary: Despite generally rigid bodies, bluefin tuna are capable of maneuvering with high agility by using various turning behaviors, with a flexible tail and caudal peduncle. Maneuverability Agility Thunnus orientalis Ratchet turn Swimming...

... Despite their enormous size, whales make their living as voracious predators. To catch their much smaller, more maneuverable prey, they have developed several unique locomotor strategies that require high energetic input, high mechanical power output and a surprising degree of agility. To better...

... wood mice revealed higher levels of locomotion and exploration than C57BL/6J mice. Learning and memory performance in the novel object recognition test was similar in both Formosan wood mice and C57BL/6J mice, but more agile responses in the inhibitory avoidance discrimination task were found...

... ray in its natural environment shows that its turning maneuvers fall within the range of those exhibited by swimmers with rigid bodies. Maneuvering Agility Turning Stereovideography Unsteady swimming is a vital aspect of the locomotor repertoire of aquatic animals ( Webb, 1997 , 2006...

...) and employed more body adjustments (i.e. mantle angle posturing) during approaches toward shrimp versus fish. Squid exhibited higher linear approach/strike velocities and accelerations with faster-swimming fish prey compared with slower shrimp prey. Agility (i.e. turning rate) during prey encounters...

..., Sepia bandensis , were filmed during turns using high-speed cameras. Kinematic features were tracked, including the length-specific radius of the turn ( R / L ), a measure of maneuverability, and angular velocity (ω), a measure of agility. Both L. brevis and S. bandensis demonstrated high...

... evident. Within our quality-corrected data, 1500 m-speed (endurance) was negatively associated with squat time (power), jump distance (power) and agility speed – reflecting the expected speed–endurance trade-off; and degree of specialisation was negatively associated with average performance across tasks...

... of the relatively greater force production inherent in the parasagittal limb posture of mice. e-mail: [email protected] 27 2 2003 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2003 2003 agility maneuverability moment of inertia locomotion running mouse Mus musculus Turning...

... of therapsids and early mammals, loss of the large heavy tail and replacement of the caudofemoralis with the hamstrings as the major hindlimb retractor gave rise to animals with greatly reduced rotational inertia and, therefore, probably much greater agility. We thank C. Farmer, D. Lee and J. Otterstrom...

...-Livingstone. Willock, C. and Pearson, J. ( 1992 ). Predators of the Wild , vol. 6. Burbank, CA: Warner House Video. agility manoeuvrability moment of inertia locomotion human. Rotational inertia ( I ) is the resistance a body offers to torques that act to spin it about an axis...

...David R. Carrier; Rebecca M. Walter; David V. Lee SUMMARY The turning agility of theropod dinosaurs may have been severely limited by the large rotational inertia of their horizontal trunks and tails. Bodies with mass distributed far from the axis of rotation have much greater rotational inertia...

... that of highly flexible fish. Agility, the rate of turning, is related to maneuverability. The median- and pectoral-fin-powered turns of O. meleagri s are slow relative to the body- and caudal-fin-powered turns of more flexible fish. References Aleev , Y. G. ( 1969 ). Function and Gross Morphology...

... of one wing (m w ) was plotted against body mass for the eight bat species, which gives: The slope for our bats, 1.11, is similar to that obtained for birds, 1.10. Adaptations to reduce the moments of inertia may be more important for increasing a bat’s flight agility (roll acceleration) than...