Strategies for Pre-Emptive Mid-Air Collision Avoidance in Budgerigars.

We have investigated how birds avoid mid-air collisions during head-on encounters. Trajectories of birds flying towards each other in a tunnel were recorded using high speed video cameras. Analysis and modelling of the data suggest two simple strategies for collision avoidance: (a) each bird veers t...

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Main Authors: Ingo Schiffner, Tristan Perez, Mandyam V Srinivasan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5040264?pdf=render