Flying at No Mechanical Energy Cost: Disclosing the Secret of Wandering Albatrosses

Albatrosses do something that no other birds are able to do: fly thousands of kilometres at no mechanical cost. This is possible because they use dynamic soaring, a flight mode that enables them to gain the energy required for flying from wind. Until now, the physical mechanisms of the energy gain i...

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Autores principales: Sachs, Gottfried, Traugott, Johannes, Nesterova, Anna P., Dell'Omo, Giacomo, Kümmeth, Franz, Heidrich, Wolfgang, Vyssotski, Alexei L., Bonadonna, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3434196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22957014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041449

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3434196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22957014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041449

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