Sentences with phrase «how stick insects»

In his doctoral dissertation, Chris Dallmann is dealing with the question of how stick insects adapt the way they walk to their environment.

Meanwhile, other researchers have examined how stick insects right themselves in the air after a fall, how owls fly silently and how pigeons navigate turbulence to pick up some aerodynamic tricks for flying robots.

«We wanted to find out how a stick insect moves, and which functions the individual parts of the leg play in its movement,» explains Professor Dr. Josef Schmitz, who together with Professor Dr. Volker Dürr is supervising Chris Dallmann's doctoral dissertation.

Not exact matches

By sticking tiny cannons on the backs of cockroaches to see how their recoil jars the insects» balance, researchers have added firepower to a new mathematical model that explains how roaches move so nimbly.

In order to unravel how much force the stick insect's leg joints generate, Dallmann had his insects walk along a walkway with integrated platforms.

A team of evolutionary biologists at Rice University, the University of Sheffield and eight other universities used a combination of ecological fieldwork and genomic assays to see how natural selection is playing out across the genome of a Southern California stick insect that is in the process of evolving into two unique species.

Researchers used a combination of ecological fieldwork and genomic assays to see how natural selection is playing out across the genome of Timema cristinae, a California stick insect that is evolving into two unique species.