Animals
Flexible Soaring Styles Allow Vultures To Stay Aloft Longer and Focused On Dinner
Vultures are not good at flapping their wings, but they manage to spend long periods of time in the air by soaring. Researchers found that these birds stay aloft by making use of small-scale turbulence that produces uplift without flapping their wings.
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