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Quantifying the dynamic wing morphing of hovering hummingbird

Animal wings are lightweight and flexible; hence, during flapping flight their shapes change. It has been known that such dynamic wing morphing reduces aerodynamic cost in insects, but the consequences in vertebrate flyers, particularly birds, are not well understood. We have developed a method to r...

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Autores principales: Maeda, Masateru, Nakata, Toshiyuki, Kitamura, Ikuo, Tanaka, Hiroto, Liu, Hao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5627076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170307