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The scaling of eye size with body mass in birds

We developed a simple method that uses skulls to estimate the diameter, and hence the mass, of birds' eyes. Allometric analysis demonstrated that, within five orders (parrots, pigeons, petrels, raptors and owls) and across 104 families of flying birds, eye mass is proportional to (body mass)(0....

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Auteurs principaux: Brooke, M. de L., Hanley, S., Laughlin, S. B.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: 1999
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1689681/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1999.0652
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