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[[Bats]] are the only mammal capable of [[Active flight in animals|true flight]]. Bats use flight for capturing prey, breeding, avoiding preda ...had an undulating flight style that alternated periods of fluttering with gliding. Evidence for this lies in the broad and short nature of ''O. finneyi'' win ...

...e [[focal adhesion]] complexes of ''[[Myxococcus]]''. Unlike twitching and gliding motilities, which are active movements where the motive force is generated ...sue = 2|pages = 186–193|pmid = 27028358|pmc = 5008027}}</ref> The speed of gliding varies between organisms, and the reversal of direction is seemingly regula ...

...tic, this technique has been used to levitate water droplets and even live animals, such as a grasshopper, frog and a mouse.<ref name=geim>[http://www.ru.nl/h ...ted by the type of surface that it rests on. A study [2] showed ferrofluid gliding across a Teflon surface leaves less ferrofluid droplets behind than a graph ...

...28/JB.184.7.1827-1831.2002|title = Force and Velocity of Mycoplasma mobile Gliding|year = 2002|last1 = Miyata|first1 = Makoto|last2 = Ryu|first2 = William S.| ...for microswimmers.  Bioinspired by microvelia beetles which are capable of gliding on the water at high speeds, microswimmers are proposed to take advantage o ...

...[[marine biology]] and [[underwater photography]] to avoid alarming marine animals and thereby get closer to them.<ref name=Lobel2005/> ...pen circuit scuba or horseriding, five times the risk of skydiving or hang gliding, but one eighth the risk of base jumping. No significant difference was fou ...