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This programme looks at recent theories of bird flight. Jeremy Rayner has predicted the wake created by a flying bird, and an animation sequence is used to show this. A wake visualisation experimen...t is used to confirm the wake predicted for a pigeon. The second half of the programme shows some work at Birmingham University in 1983. Professor Pat Butler and Dr.Tony Woakes rear a gaggle of Canada Geese from egg and the geese imprint onto Dr. Woakes and follow him everywhere. The scientistsdesign and build a light weight miniature transmitter which is placed in the abdomen of one of the geese to monitor vital physiological parameters.
This programme looks at recent theories of bird flight. Jeremy Rayner has predicted the wake created by a flying bird, and an animation sequence is used to show this. A wake visualisation experimen...t is used to confirm the wake predicted for a pigeon. The second half of the programme shows some work at Birmingham University in 1983. Professor Pat Butler and Dr.Tony Woakes rear a gaggle of Canada Geese from egg and the geese imprint onto Dr. Woakes and follow him everywhere. The scientistsdesign and build a light weight miniature transmitter which is placed in the abdomen of one of the geese to monitor vital physiological parameters.
| Module code and title: | S324, Animal physiology |
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| Item code: | S324; 09 |
| First transmission date: | 17-08-1985 |
| Published: | 1985 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:28 |
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| Producer: | Hendrik Ball |
| Contributors: | Barry Paine; Jeremy Rayner; T Woakes; P Butler |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Animation; Heart rate; Lift; Respiration rate; Telemetry; Thrust; Vorticity; Wake |
| Subject terms: | Birds--Flight |
| Master spool number: | HOU4569 |
| Production number: | FOUS297H |
| Videofinder number: | 1845 |
| Available to public: | no |
