Orfanides co-authors paper on bird flight in PNAS
Gabriella Orfanides ’23 (biology) and current environmental science MS student co-authored a paper, "It pays to follow the leader: Metabolic cost of flight is lower for trailing birds in small groups," published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study integrates research from six U.S. universities and addresses long-standing questions in bird flight and collective movement through measurements of starlings flying in groups of two or three birds in the controlled environment of an animal flight wind tunnel.
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