Breast Feathers as an Air-current Sense Organ for the Control of Flight Behaviour in a Songbird (Carduelis spinus)
| Autor: | Michael Gewecke, Martin Woike |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
Sense organ
biology Ecology Air current Flight behaviour biology.organism_classification Flight pattern Songbird Carduelis spinus Feather visual_art visual_art.visual_art_medium General Earth and Planetary Sciences Animal Science and Zoology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie. 47:293-298 |
| ISSN: | 0044-3573 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1978.tb01838.x |
| Popis: | Analysis of the flight behaviour of siskins (Carduelis spinus) was made possible by tethering them with a harness to a flight balance in a wind tunnel. It could be shown that the breast feathers work as an air-current sense organ influencing the siskins' flight pattern and the aerodynamic parameters. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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