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Direct Evidence for Vision-based Control of Flight Speed in Budgerigars

We have investigated whether, and, if so, how birds use vision to regulate the speed of their flight. Budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus, were filmed in 3-D using high-speed video cameras as they flew along a 25 m tunnel in which stationary or moving vertically oriented black and white stripes wer...

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Autores principales: Schiffner, Ingo, Srinivasan, Mandyam V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26046799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep10992