Credit: University of Michigan
She and Baliga carefully measured the length, width and mass of each major body part of a bird including the head, torso, wings and tail. Harvey then developed a computer model that read in this information and calculated where each bird's center of gravity is—sort of a balance point.
"Combining all these various pieces of information together for each individual species, we created models that gave us an understanding of how a species could change its own stability or instability as it's flying around," Baliga said.
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