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: Duriez, Olivier, Kato, Akiko, Tromp, Clara, Dell'Omo, Giacomo, Vyssotski, Alexei L., Sarrazin, François, Ropert-Coudert, Yan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24454760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084887

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24454760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084887

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