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Where Have All the Giants Gone? How Animals Deal with the Problem of Size

The survival of both the hunter and the hunted often comes down to speed. Yet how fast an animal can run is intricately linked to its size, such that the fastest animals are not the biggest nor the smallest. The ability to maintain high speeds is dependent on the body’s capacity to withstand the hig...

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Autores principales: Dick, Taylor J. M., Clemente, Christofer J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5226675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28076354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2000473