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Zoology

body weight divided by wing area, a measure linked to flight speed, manoeuvrability and foraging style in flying animals.

In zoology, wing loading refers to body weight divided by wing area, a measure linked to flight speed, manoeuvrability and foraging style in flying animals. This meaning comes from Norberg (1987) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences.[1]

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Norberg, U. M., & Rayner, J. M. V. (1987). Ecological morphology and flight in bats (Mammalia; Chiroptera): wing adaptations, flight performance, foraging strategy and echolocation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, 316(1179), 335-427. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1987.0030

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