[Annotation] flight v flight behavior

[Susan Tweedie]

Thanks David - I'll request the term.
Susan

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 08:37 -0400, David Hill wrote:
> 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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