#  Media 

 



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[**The Lesser Egyptian Jerboa**](/news-media/jerboa "Lesser Egyptian Jerboa")  
  
Jerboas are highly-maneuverable bipedal hopping rodents. This slow-motion video shows a jerboa skipping across a force place at 0.87m/s (almost 2mph!).



 

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[**Obstacle flight of the pigeon**](/news-media/obstacle-flight-pigeon "Obstacle flight of the pigeon")  
  
To study birds' flight control and path planning in a cluttered environment, we challenged pigeons to fly through a forest of vertical poles. The body and head were tracked in 3D to allow reconstruction of the flight path as well as the panoramic visual field.



 

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[**The real bird's eye view**](/news-media/pigeon-eye-view "Pigeon Eye View")

A head-mount wireless camera was strapped on top of the pigeon to capture videos that represent the experience of a bird flying through a forest. The pigeon's opto-kinetic reflex kept the view level regardless of the body position during flight.



 

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[**Goat perturbation recovery**](/news-media/goat-perturbation "Goat perturbation recovery")  
  
These experiments, part of a collaboration with[ Boston Dynamics](http://www.bostondynamics.com/), registered the forces produced by goats during perturbations and subsequent recoveries.



 

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[**Pigeons turn like helicopters**](/news-media/pigeons-turn "Pigeons turn like helicopters")  
  
A pigeon in a low speed aerial turn. Turning pigeons produce average downstroke aerodynamic forces in a consistent direction relative to the body, requiring body rotations to change flight trajectories, analogous to helicopters and many flying insects.



 

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[**Cockatiel flight**](/news-media/cockatiel-flight "Cockatiel flight")  
  
A cockatiel, *Nympicus hollandicus*, flying in the windtunnel at 9 m/s (~ 20 mph). We are currently studying how these birds maneuver in comparison to other species.



 

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[**Emu chick on a treadmill**](/news-media/emu-chick "Emu chick on a treadmill")  
  
This movie shows an emu chick running on the Concord Field Station treadmill. Taken using a high-speed digital video camera, this footage allows us to slow down the animal's movements for analysis.



 

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[**Tammar Wallaby hopping**](/news-media/wallaby-hopping "Tammar Wallaby hopping")  
  
Here is a tammar wallaby hopping on the Concord Field Station treadmill. This sequence was captured at high speed (250 frames per second) and is played back at a reduced rate to allow slow motion viewing and analysis.