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

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2008-09-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2008.0422PMID 18522911PMCID PMC2603210
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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