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What Is the Use of Elephant Hair?

The idea that low surface densities of hairs could be a heat loss mechanism is understood in engineering and has been postulated in some thermal studies of animals. However, its biological implications, both for thermoregulation as well as for the evolution of epidermal structures, have not yet been...

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Autores principales: Myhrvold, Conor L., Stone, Howard A., Bou-Zeid, Elie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3468452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23071700
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047018

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