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Bats fly like a bee

Videos reveal how bats turn quickly and get lift.

Bats and birds use their wing-flapping powers differently, a video study of the night flyers reveals. Bats leave a more complicated pattern of swirling vortices in their wake, and work harder on their upstroke than birds. This, the researchers say, may be the secret to their super-maneuverability. And it means that they fly a bit like a bee.

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Posted by Katharine Sanderson on May 11, 2007
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So tell me what is with the title?? Bats and Bees? The article is about Birds and the Bats.

Posted by: Don Craig | May 13, 2007 02:30 AM

The story told us about the difference between flying of birds and bats but what is the mechanism used by bats in overcoming severe air currents.is the same mechnism used by bees.

Posted by: Mostafa Hassan | May 15, 2007 08:02 PM

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