October 27, 2016, 17:19Washington, 27 oct (PL) species of birds introduced brand of flight without touching the ground, according to research revealed today by scientists at the University of Lund in Sweden.
According to the lead author of the study, Anders Hedenström, when these animals leave their breeding to migrate to the tropical forests of central Africa through west Africa in August, never touching land until they return.
To demonstrate this hypothesis, with a novel micro data logger with sensors for light managed to control the flight of 19 prototypes of the species, pointing to an article published in Current Biology.
As a result, they were more than 99 percent of their time in the air during your cycle is non-reproductive (10 months).
in The words of Hedenström, the team still does not know if these birds sleep or how they do it, therefore, announced that it will continue the inquiry for the answer to this and other questions.
The common swift is a species of bird apodiforme (small size of the legs) of the family Apodidae own Eurasia and Africa.
feeds on tiny flying insects which it catches with its beak remains open to the fly, action, during which also collects the materials with which to build their nests.
mgt/rml
No comments:
Post a Comment