Terrestrial locomotion in penguins: it costs more to waddle.

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• Publication year

  1977

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1977-02-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.835018PMID 835018
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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