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Fig. 8 | Movement Ecology

Fig. 8

From: Identification of animal movement patterns using tri-axial magnetometry

Fig. 8

The specific m-prints of (a) the ring created by a complete turn of the Himalayan vulture during thermal soaring (40 Hz tag attached with leg loop harness and equipped in France, see [53]) and (b) the ellipse mapped by a front-crawl double arm stroke of a human swimmer (40 Hz tag taped to the upper back aligned with the spine, equipped in Mallorca). Multiple examples of the two behaviours are shown with their centroids illustrated as vectors from the m-sphere origin. The m-prints of the vulture shift due to bank angle; where red and orange prints are performed with the opposing bank angle to blue and dark grey prints (clockwise and anti-clockwise turns). The dot product of the centroid vectors from that of the centroid of the NOP provides the average angle of bank in the roll axis adopted over a full turn. For the swimmer, a postural rotation in the double arm stroke creates the ellipse m-print, which moves about the NOP according to heading, hence the dot product of centroids in this case provide a heading (green prints have the opposite heading to orange prints)

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