The hummingbird's tongue: a self-assembling capillary syphon

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2012-12-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2012.1837PMID 23075839PMCID PMC3497234
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