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How Bats Land Upside Down
A new study reveals that bats use the inertia of their unusually heavy wings—rather than their aerodynamic properties—to help them perform acrobatic maneuvers like landing upside down to roost. Read the Research Article.
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Public Library of Science
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4646497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26569408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002298 |
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| description | A new study reveals that bats use the inertia of their unusually heavy wings—rather than their aerodynamic properties—to help them perform acrobatic maneuvers like landing upside down to roost. Read the Research Article. |
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| spelling | pubmed-46464972015-11-25 How Bats Land Upside Down Meadows, Robin PLoS Biol Synopsis A new study reveals that bats use the inertia of their unusually heavy wings—rather than their aerodynamic properties—to help them perform acrobatic maneuvers like landing upside down to roost. Read the Research Article. Public Library of Science 2015-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4646497/ /pubmed/26569408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002298 Text en © 2015 Robin Meadows http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
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| title | How Bats Land Upside Down |
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| title_short | How Bats Land Upside Down |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4646497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26569408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002298 |
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