SANTA CRUZ, CA–A new study of flight performance in wandering albatrosses reveals significant differences between males and females and between adults and fledglings, and suggests that these ...

Flight patterns of honeybees (Apis mellifera ligustica) were quantified as the bees foraged among artificial 'flowers' for sugar solution ('nectar'). Bees exhibited considerable directionality on ...

As part of a study of the foraging ecology of the Wood Storks (Mycteria americana) at the Birdsville colony in east-central Georgia, U.S.A., 130 storks were followed from the colony to foraging sites ...

Biologists have long wondered how animals find food. In times of plenty, when food is easy to find, wandering around at random should do the trick. And indeed, there is plenty of evidence that ...

Parrotlets can assist and extend their long jumps with small "proto-wingbeats," which bird ancestors may have used to develop their foraging flight capabilities. This material relates to a paper that ...

Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction: Movement: 1. Empirical motivation for studying movement; 2. Statistical physics of biological motion; 3. Random ...

“The ocean seems like a featureless place,” says David Sims of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. “How does a shark find prey when it doesn’t really know where it is when it ...