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Flight costs of long, sexually selected tails in hummingbirds
The elongated tails adorning many male birds have traditionally been thought to degrade flight performance by increasing body drag. However, aerodynamic interactions between the body and tail can be substantial in some contexts, and a short tail may actually reduce rather than increase overall drag....
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The Royal Society
2009
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| Online Zugang: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677254/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19324747 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0090 |
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