Sentences with phrase «flight initiation»
The alert, flight initiation and escape distances were 1.6, 2.5 and 2.3 times longer, respectively, when Svalbard reindeer were encountered by a person disguised as a polar bear compared to a person in dark hiking gear.
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Esteban Fernández - Juricic, Daniel T. Blumstein, Gerardo Abrica, Lisa Manriquez, Laura Bandy Adams, Robert Adams, Monica Daneshrad & Iñaki Rodriguez - Prieto — 2006 (4)([email protected]) Keywords: flight initiation distance, hind limb morphology, landing distance, migratory species, predation, wingtip shape
However, the speed of the car itself had no effect on flight initiation distance.
On a drive home from the laboratory, researchers in Canada conducted a straightforward experiment: They traveled stretches of road with various speed limits (20, 50, 90, and 110 kilometers per hour) and tested how close a bird on or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distance.
Together with Murdoch University's Associate Professor Trish Fleming the research team measured alert distance, flight initiation distance, and distance fled to see if they could discriminate between pedestrians who look directly at them and those that did not, as well as how they reacted when pedestrians left the footpath.
«We found that the flight initiation distance for the swans at the urban environment was only 13 meters, and on average at the non-urban environment it was 96 meters.
The researchers measured what they call each bird's «flight initiation distance»: basically, how close could a human get before the swan would fly away?
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Passengers become members of the carrier by paying a $ 500 one - time initiation fee, and have unlimited flights for $ 1650 a month.
As a result, and in keeping with our initiation of strategic and targeted marketing efforts in South America, this partnership could not come at a more opportune time» Hon. Manuel Heredia, Minister of Tourism in Belize said about the new Copa Airline flight to Belize.