Falling with Style: Bats Perform Complex Aerial Rotations by Adjusting Wing Inertia

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Attila J. Bergou,

Affiliation School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Sharon M. Swartz,

Affiliations School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Hamid Vejdani,

Affiliation School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Daniel K. Riskin,

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Lauren Reimnitz,

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Gabriel Taubin,

Affiliation School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Kenneth S. Breuer

* E-mail: kbreuer@brown.edu

Affiliations School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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