Animal behavior: flying back to front.
To avoid collisions, flies steer away from expanding visual scenes generated during straight flight: so how do they fly forward when no collision is imminent? A new study shows that wind compensates for this aversion, allowing flies to forge ahead.
Theobald
Jamie Carroll
JC
Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. jamiet@physci.ucla.edu
Frye
Mark A
MA
D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D005426:Flight, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014919:Wind