How Cheap Is Soaring Flight in Raptors? A Preliminary Investigation in Freely-Flying Vultures

Measuring the costs of soaring, gliding and flapping flight in raptors is challenging, but essential for understanding their ecology. Among raptors, vultures are scavengers that have evolved highly efficient soaring-gliding flight techniques to minimize energy costs to find unpredictable food resour...

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Autori principali: Duriez, Olivier, Kato, Akiko, Tromp, Clara, Dell'Omo, Giacomo, Vyssotski, Alexei L., Sarrazin, François, Ropert-Coudert, Yan
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Public Library of Science 2014
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893159/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24454760
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084887
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