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doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.12.024.
Animal behavior: flying back to front
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.12.024
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Animal behavior: flying back to front
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To avoid collisions, flies steer away from expanding visual scenes generated during straight flight: so how do they fly forward when no collision is imminent? A new study shows that wind compensates for this aversion, allowing flies to forge ahead.
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The role of visual and mechanosensory cues in structuring forward flight in Drosophila melanogaster.J Exp Biol. 2007 Dec;210(Pt 23):4092-103. doi: 10.1242/jeb.006502. J Exp Biol. 2007. PMID: 18025010
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