Biology 2

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initiate flight) and also powered flight.
The prediction that was made for this experiment was that this experiment would follow the results that were observed by Altenbach in 1979, and 1988. That is, that the bat would indeed initiate its flight with a jump.
The tests that were imposed were the use of a force platform with twelve transducing elements. There were two horizontally oriented aluminum box beams holding up the platform. Short vertical beams at the end of each box beam attached to the supporting baseplate of the platform. An aluminum plate was glued to a honeycomb shaped piece of plastic. The platform was calibrated by using the methods outlined in Biewener and Full (1992). The platform's vertical and horizontal channels were calibrated to individually hold up to 10 N which equates to approximately 30 times the animal's weight. The platform was then used to calculate the animal's force that was exerted when jumping in order to initiate flight.
The data that was ...

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