The cost of flight in flocks

Geoffrey Spedding ()
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Geoffrey Spedding: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1191, USA.

Nature, 2011, vol. 474, issue 7352, 458-459

Abstract: There are well-known aerodynamic and energetic benefits to flying in an orderly formation. By contrast, it seems that the flocking flight seen in pigeons is metabolically expensive. So why do they do it? See Letter p.494

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1038/474458a

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