Locomotion in diving elephant seals: physical and physiological constraints

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2007-11-29

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2007.2107PMID 17472919PMCID PMC2442859
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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