Physics-based simulations of aerial attacks by peregrine falcons reveal that stooping at high speed maximizes catch success against agile prey

• Robin Mills ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: r.mills@rug.nl

  Affiliations Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-2855

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• Hanno Hildenbrandt,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

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• Graham K. Taylor ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Graham K. Taylor, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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• Charlotte K. Hemelrijk

  Contributed equally to this work with: Graham K. Taylor, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

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