[Annotation] flight v flight behavior
David Hill
dph at informatics.jax.org
Tue Oct 28 05:37:08 PDT 2008
I don't think they are synonymous. Behavior is a response to a stimulus.
I think it would be best to create a term 'flight' as a child of
locomotion.
David
Susan Tweedie wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm curating a paper about the affect of mutations on Drosophila flight
> preformance (measured in terms of wing beats per minute). I just
> wondered if the term 'flight behavior' is synonmous with flight? Or
> should flight(walking etc) exist as a separate term(s) under locomotion?
> I've always thought the behavior terms were more to do with how do
> something rather than if you can do it e.g. choosing to fly in a circle
> rather than the ability to flap your wings in the first place.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Susan
>
>
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