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Evolution and Ecology of Silent Flight in Owls and Other Flying Vertebrates

We raise and explore possible answers to three questions about the evolution and ecology of silent flight of owls: (1) do owls fly silently for stealth, or is it to reduce self-masking? Current evidence slightly favors the self-masking hypothesis, but this question remains unsettled. (2) Two of the...

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Autores principales: Clark, Christopher J,  LePiane, Krista, Liu, Lori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7671161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33791545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaa001