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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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| 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 |