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SUBMITTER: Ortega-Jimenez VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4992711 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ortega-Jimenez V M VM Badger M M Wang H H Dudley R R
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20160901 1704
Hummingbirds are well known for their ability to sustain hovering flight, but many other remarkable features of manoeuvrability characterize the more than 330 species of trochilid. Most research on hummingbird flight has been focused on either forward flight or hovering in otherwise non-perturbed air. In nature, however, hummingbirds fly through and must compensate for substantial environmental perturbation, including heavy rain, unpredictable updraughts and turbulent eddies. Here, we review rec ...[more]