Effects of Vehicle Speed on Flight Initiation by Turkey Vultures: Implications for Bird-Vehicle Collisions

The avoidance of motorized vehicles is a common challenge for birds in the modern world. Birds appear to rely on antipredator behaviors to avoid vehicles, but modern vehicles (automobiles and aircraft) are faster than natural predators. Thus, birds may be relatively ill-equipped, in terms of sensory...

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Autores principales: DeVault, Travis L., Blackwell, Bradley F., Seamans, Thomas W., Lima, Steven L., Fernández-Juricic, Esteban
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/PMC3913678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24503622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087944

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3913678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24503622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087944

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