{"id":180251,"date":"2024-01-10T23:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T05:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/need-for-speed-how-hummingbirds-switch-mental-gears-in-flight"},"modified":"2024-01-10T23:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T05:27:22","slug":"need-for-speed-how-hummingbirds-switch-mental-gears-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/need-for-speed-how-hummingbirds-switch-mental-gears-in-flight","title":{"rendered":"Need for speed: How hummingbirds switch mental gears in flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/need-for-speed-how-hummingbirds-switch-mental-gears-in-flight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hummingbirds use two distinct sensory strategies to control their flight, depending on whether they\u2019re hovering or in forward motion, according to new research by University of British Columbia (UBC) zoologists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen in forward fight, hummingbirds rely on what we call an \u2018internal forward model\u2019\u2014almost an ingrained, intuitive autopilot\u2014to gauge speed,\u201d says Dr. Vikram B. Baliga, lead author of a new study on hummingbird locomotion <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2023.2155\">published<\/a> in <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/i>. \u201cThere\u2019s just too much information coming in to rely directly on every <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/visual+cue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visual cue<\/a> from your surroundings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when hovering or dealing with cues that might require a change in altitude, we found they rely much more on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/real-time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">real-time<\/a>, direct visual feedback from their environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hummingbirds use two distinct sensory strategies to control their flight, depending on whether they\u2019re hovering or in forward motion, according to new research by University of British Columbia (UBC) zoologists. \u201cWhen in forward fight, hummingbirds rely on what we call an \u2018internal forward model\u2019\u2014almost an ingrained, intuitive autopilot\u2014to gauge speed,\u201d says Dr. Vikram B. Baliga, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}