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To fly or not to fly: high flight costs in a large sea duck do not imply an expensive lifestyle

A perennial question in ornithology is whether flight has evolved mostly to facilitate access to food or as an anti-predator strategy. However, flight is an expensive mode of locomotion and species using flight regularly are associated with an expensive lifestyle. Using heart rate (HR) data loggers...

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Main Authors: Pelletier, David, Guillemette, Magella, Grandbois, Jean-Marc, Butler, Patrick J
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603210/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18522911
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.0422
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