Modulation of Flight Muscle Recruitment and Wing Rotation Enables Hummingbirds to Mitigate Aerial Roll Perturbations (Current Biology)

Ravi et al. use a steady longitudinal vortex to determine how fliers counter roll perturbations. Hummingbirds combine bilateral differences in wing elevation and rotation with subtle changes in posture and neuromotor modulation for an elegantly simple yet efficient countering of an unnatural and challenging perturbation.