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Excess Baggage for Birds: Inappropriate Placement of Tags on Gannets Changes Flight Patterns

Devices attached to flying birds can hugely enhance our understanding of their behavioural ecology for periods when they cannot be observed directly. For this, scientists routinely attach units to either birds' backs or their tails. However, inappropriate payload distribution is critical in air...

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Autores principales: Vandenabeele, Sylvie P., Grundy, Edward, Friswell, Michael I., Grogan, Adam, Votier, Stephen C., Wilson, Rory P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24671007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092657