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Maximum Running Speed of Captive Bar-Headed Geese Is Unaffected by Severe Hypoxia

While bar-headed geese are renowned for migration at high altitude over the Himalayas, previous work on captive birds suggested that these geese are unable to maintain rates of oxygen consumption while running in severely hypoxic conditions. To investigate this paradox, we re-examined the running pe...

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Autores principales: Hawkes, Lucy A., Butler, Patrick J., Frappell, Peter B., Meir, Jessica U., Milsom, William K., Scott, Graham R., Bishop, Charles M.
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/PMC3977980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24710001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094015

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