Calculating just how small a whale can be

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• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1988-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/335675B0
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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