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Relating form to function in the hummingbird feeding apparatus
A complete understanding of the feeding structures is fundamental in order to study how animals survive. Some birds use long and protrusible tongues as the main tool to collect their central caloric source (e.g., woodpeckers and nectarivores). Hummingbirds are the oldest and most diverse clade of ne...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28607842 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3449 |