video: This is a high-speed video of a rapid escape maneuver of a flying fruit fly (Drosophila hydei). The video is slowed down 300x. Please note that the last clip in the video consists of a 3-D movie that requires 3-D red-cyan glasses. This video 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.' view more
Credit: Florian Muijres, Dickinson Lab, University of Washington