Flies That "Stick" Upside Down Landings Use Different Approach Than Thought (5 of 9) (VIDEO)

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High-speed video recording of an example pitch-roll combined landing. A fly lands upside down using a pitch and roll combined body maneuver. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 23rd, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by P. Liu at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA, and colleagues was titled, "Flies land upside down on a ceiling using rapid visually mediated rotational maneuvers."

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Bo Cheng and Pan Liu, the Pennsylvania State University

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