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- who: Marco KleinHeerenbrink from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the research work: Optimization of avian perching manoeuvres, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 12/05/2022
- what: The authors show that the swooping trajectories of perching Harris' hawks (Parabuteo unicinctus) minimize neither time nor energy alone, but rather minimize the distance flown after stalling. For the purposes of the main optimization analysis, the authors constrained the aerodynamic lift and power to be constant for each flight phase (see Methods for justification and validation). Apart from confirming the validity of the constant power approximation (Fig 4a), this analysis . . .
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