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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...

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Autores principales: Cheney, Jorn A., Stevenson, Jonathan P. J., Durston, Nicholas E., Song, Jialei, Usherwood, James R., Bomphrey, Richard J., Windsor, Shane P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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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