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Flight speed and performance of the wandering albatross with respect to wind

BACKGROUND: Albatrosses and other large seabirds use dynamic soaring to gain sufficient energy from the wind to travel large distances rapidly and with little apparent effort. The recent development of miniature bird-borne tracking devices now makes it possible to explore the physical and biological...

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Autores principales: Richardson, Philip L., Wakefield, Ewan D., Phillips, Richard A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29556395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40462-018-0121-9