I Believe I Can...Hop: Foraging Parrotlets Optimize Energy During Short Flights (3 of 15) (IMAGE)

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I Believe I Can...Hop: Foraging Parrotlets Optimize Energy During Short Flights (3 of 15)

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Front and side view showing how parrotlets assist and extend their long jumps with small "proto-wingbeats," which bird ancestors may have used to develop their foraging flight capabilities. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 17, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.D. Chin at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "How birds direct impulse to minimize the energetic cost of foraging flight."

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[Credit: Diana Chin, Lentink Lab]

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