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From: cam@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Shooting pigeons
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.165534.23065@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Apr 91 16:55:34 GMT
References: <1524@ucl-cs.uucp>
Reply-To: cam@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland
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In article <1524@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:

>And to add to that all that, I watch my dog get the ball from the
>letter box (about two to three times it own height) and the birds land
>on the (often spinning) peanut feeder.

>These are neat tricks that will take some duplication/simulation.

Ever watch squirrels jumping from tree to tree? They run out along one
branch, right out to the twiggy end, which is bending under their
weight, and without seeming to pause in their run, make a JUMP which
leaves the exit branch springing, and make it no bother to the target
branch: they compensate for the spring in the branch they're leaving.

But nothing beats gibbons flying through the trees with nonchalant
acrobatics of incredible grace and impossible skill!
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aipna   +44 (0)31 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205