High-speed video analysis of jumping in Locusta migratoria
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School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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The Biorobotics Institute, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University,, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Animal Behavior, Mathematical Biology, Zoology
- Keywords
- jumping performance, simplified model, L.migratoria, surface roughness
- Copyright
- © 2019 Mo et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. High-speed video analysis of jumping in Locusta migratoria. PeerJ Preprints 7:e2877v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2877v2
Abstract
Among insects, locusts are widely recognized for their excellent jumping performances. Indeed, jumping helps locusts to avoid predators as well as to initiate flight. In the present contribution, we employed high-speed videos to analyze the jumping performance of Locusta migratoria L. from ground with different toughness. Results outlined that L. migratoria can prolong their takeoff time to get bigger takeoff velocity to adapt to different terrains, and takeoff velocity has no connection with takeoff angle.
Author Comment
The full manuscript has been accepted on a peer-reviewed journal, to which readers are referred. Herein, we keep a shorter, preliminary version.