image: Hummingbirds and bats hover in this Aerodynamic Force Platform while their instantaneous vertical force is measured and wingbeats captured with high speed cameras. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 26, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Ingersoll at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Biomechanics of hover performance in Neotropical hummingbirds versus bats." view more
Credit: Lentink Lab, Stanford University