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SUBMITTER: McCracken GF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5180116 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McCracken Gary F GF Safi Kamran K Kunz Thomas H TH Dechmann Dina K N DK Swartz Sharon M SM Wikelski Martin M
Royal Society open science 20161109 11
The performance capabilities of flying animals reflect the interplay of biomechanical and physiological constraints and evolutionary innovation. Of the two extant groups of vertebrates that are capable of powered flight, birds are thought to fly more efficiently and faster than bats. However, fast-flying bat species that are adapted for flight in open airspace are similar in wing shape and appear to be similar in flight dynamics to fast-flying birds that exploit the same aerial niche. Here, we i ...[more]