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Inner vane fringes of barn owl feathers reconsidered: morphometric data and functional aspects

It is a challenge to understand how barn owls (Tyto alba) reduce noise during flight to be able to hunt small mammals by audition. Several specializations of the wing and the wing feathers have been implicated in noise reduction. What has been overlooked so far are the fringes at the inner vanes of...

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Main Authors: Bachmann, Thomas, Wagner, Hermann, Tropea, Cameron
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3390528/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22471670
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7580.2012.01504.x
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