... 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...

... capacity and maintain optimum flight performance by altering flight kinematics and postures in response to moderate mass loss. Dietary restriction Eurasian tree sparrow Flight performance High-speed videography Load-lifting Wing kinematics National Natural Science Foundation of China...

...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...

...., L.A.M. and T.L.H. Competing interests The authors declare no competing financial interests. 16 5 2013 20 8 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Thrips Aerodynamics Flapping flight Wing kinematics Locomotion Weis Fogh mechanism Bristled...

... 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. In this study we investigated the question of whether flight of the fruit fly is purely innate or improves with practice. We addressed this question by comparing a variety of flight parameters such as wing kinematics, flight speed and acceleration...

...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...

..., the output of each temporal filter is spatially summed, integrating motion over the fly's entire field of view. The final sum is then subject to saturation due to the mechanical and temporal limits on the control of wing kinematics. The model predicts that the sum of antagonistic translation commands results...

...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...