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Power Benefits of High-Altitude Flapping Wing Flight at the Monarch Butterfly Scale

The long-range migration of monarch butterflies, extended over 4000 km, is not well understood. Monarchs experience varying density conditions during migration, ranging as high as 3000 m, where the air density is much lower than at sea level. In this study, we test the hypothesis that the aerodynami...

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Autores principales: Kang, Chang-kwon, Sridhar, Madhu, Twigg, Rachel, Pohly, Jeremy, Lee, Taeyoung, Aono, Hikaru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10452477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37622957
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics8040352