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Strategies for Pre-Emptive Mid-Air Collision Avoidance in Budgerigars

We have investigated how birds avoid mid-air collisions during head-on encounters. Trajectories of birds flying towards each other in a tunnel were recorded using high speed video cameras. Analysis and modelling of the data suggest two simple strategies for collision avoidance: (a) each bird veers t...

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Autores principales: Schiffner, Ingo, Perez, Tristan, Srinivasan, Mandyam V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27680488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162435