Biomechanics of Insect and Bird Flight
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Dr Sridhar Ravi (Vice-Chancellors Research Fellow, RMIT University) talks about how insects and birds fly, in particular the flight of bumblebees through an aerodynamic obstacle course and hummingbirds flying through discrete and continuous aerial disturbances.
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