Banked Turns Are Flies' Saving Grace (2 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Banked Turns Are Flies' Saving Grace (2 of 7)

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This is a time-lapse image of an escape maneuver of a fruit fly. This image relates to a paper that appeared in Apr. 4, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Florian Muijres at University of Washington in Seattle, Wash., and colleagues was titled, 'Flies Evade Looming Targets by Executing Rapid Visually Directed Banked Turns.'

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Florian Muijres

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