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SUBMITTER: Pete AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4614461 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pete Ashley E AE Kress Daniel D Dimitrov Marina A MA Lentink David D
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20150901 110
Birds improve vision by stabilizing head position relative to their surroundings, while their body is forced up and down during flapping flight. Stabilization is facilitated by compensatory motion of the sophisticated avian head-neck system. While relative head motion has been studied in stationary and walking birds, little is known about how birds accomplish head stabilization during flapping flight. To unravel this, we approximate the avian neck with a linear mass-spring-damper system for vert ...[more]