How cheap is soaring flight in raptors? A preliminary investigation in freely-flying vultures.

Measuring the costs of soaring, gliding and flapping flight in raptors is challenging, but essential for understanding their ecology. Among raptors, vultures are scavengers that have evolved highly efficient soaring-gliding flight techniques to minimize energy costs to find unpredictable food resour...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Olivier Duriez, Akiko Kato, Clara Tromp, Giacomo Dell'Omo, Alexei L Vyssotski, François Sarrazin, Yan Ropert-Coudert
Formato: article
Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
Materias:
R
Q
Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/ba39f60ef3744bbbb22204d80411f401
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!