Micro air vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to revolutionize our sensing and information
gathering capabilities in areas such as environmental monitoring and homeland security …

The need for high-throughput, precise, and meaningful methods for measuring behavior has
been amplified by our recent successes in measuring and manipulating neural circuitry. The …

A frequent assumption in behavioural science is that most of an animal's activities can be
described in terms of a small set of stereotyped motifs. Here, we introduce a method for …

This is an ideal book for graduate students and researchers interested in the aerodynamics,
structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats and insects, as well as of micro …

Avoiding predators is an essential behavior in which animals must quickly transform sensory
cues into evasive actions. Sensory reflexes are particularly fast in flying insects such as flies …

There are nearly a million known species of flying insects and 13 000 species of flying warm-
blooded vertebrates, including mammals, birds and bats. While in flight, their wings not only …

Flying insects and robots that mimic them flap and rotate (or 'pitch') their wings with large
angular amplitudes. The reciprocating nature of flap** requires rotation of the wing at the …

Insects can hover, fly forward, climb, and descend with ease while demonstrating amazing
stability, and they can also maneuver in impressive ways as no other organisms can. Is their …

A fundamental challenge common to studies of animal movement, behavior, and ecology is
the collection of high-quality datasets on spatial positions of animals as they change through …

This work is a synthesis of our current understanding of the mechanics, aerodynamics and
visually mediated control of dragonfly and damselfly flight, with the addition of new …