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Bird wings act as a suspension system that rejects gusts
Musculoskeletal systems cope with many environmental perturbations without neurological control. These passive preflex responses aid animals to move swiftly through complex terrain. Whether preflexes play a substantial role in animal flight is uncertain. We investigated how birds cope with gusty env...
Autores principales: | Cheney, Jorn A., Stevenson, Jonathan P. J., Durston, Nicholas E., Song, Jialei, Usherwood, James R., Bomphrey, Richard J., Windsor, Shane P. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7661293/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33081609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1748 |
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