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...
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Autores principales: | Olivier Duriez, Akiko Kato, Clara Tromp, Giacomo Dell'Omo, Alexei L Vyssotski, François Sarrazin, Yan Ropert-Coudert |
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Lenguaje: | EN |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/ba39f60ef3744bbbb22204d80411f401 |
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