Skip to main content
. 2015 Nov 16;13(11):e1002297. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002297

Fig 2. Bats rapidly reorient their bodies during landing.

Fig 2

(Above) Selected images from high-speed recordings of C. perspicillata executing a landing maneuver and, upon failing to find a landing site, executing a righting maneuver. (Below) Corresponding 3-D reconstruction of the 52-degree-of-freedom flight kinematics. The images from left to right correspond to t = 0.185 s, 0.26 s, 0.335 s, 0.41 s, and 0.485 s (also, see Fig 3). To give a sense of scale, C. perspicillata have a characteristic tip-to-tip wingspan of approximately 30 cm. Tracked video data available in file tracked_data.zip from the Dryad Digital Repository, http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.21qs5 [31].