Powered flight was once a capability limited only to animals, but by identifying useful
attributes of animal flight and building on these with technological advances, engineers …

Landscape management is a key tool for wildlife conservation. This is especially important in
protected areas, where conservation, local resource harvesting such as timber harvesting …

Unlike the tail of a bird, regarded as a separately controlled aerodynamic surface, the
membrane tail of a bat is operated as a dynamic trailing-edge flap. We investigate the effects …

Studying the detailed biomechanics of flying animals requires accurate three‐dimensional
coordinates for key anatomical landmarks. Traditionally, this relies on manually digitizing …

Predator-prey co-evolution can escalate into an evolutionary arms race. 1 Examples of
insect countermeasures to bat echolocation are well-known, 2 but presumptive direct …

The flapping flight of many bat species is characterized by a high degree of maneuverability
and provides fertile ground for biomimetic design. However, there has been little prior work …

Bats exhibit a high degree of agility and provide an excellent model system for bioinspired
flight. The current study investigates an ascending right turn of a Hipposideros pratti bat and …

Flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) have gained much attention from researchers
due to their exceptional performance at low Reynolds numbers. However, the limited …

Fluid dynamics, and flight in particular, is a domain where organisms challenge our
understanding of its physics. Integrating the current knowledge of animal flight, we propose …

The continuing increase in motorisation and the resulting development of the road
infrastructure puts increasing demands on environmental protection, and on the protection of …