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Record #187219:

Albatross flight performance and energetics / Scott Shaffer.

Title: Albatross flight performance and energetics / Scott Shaffer.
Author(s): Shaffer, Scott.
Date: 2008.
Publisher: Toronto, Ont.: Firefly
In: Albatross : their world, their ways. (2008.),
Abstract: Analyses way in which albatrosses harness wind power and gravity to fly great distances with minimum energy expenditure, and considers some effects on life-history patterns.
Notes:

In: Albatross : their world, their ways / Tui de Roy, Mark Jones, Julian Fitter.

Keywords: 598.2 -- Birds.
598.421.2 -- Diomedeidae.
591.5 -- Animal behaviour.
591.174 -- Flight.
H5 -- Zoology: birds.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*61) -- North Atlantic Ocean.
(*7) -- Antarctic regions.
(*80) -- Southern Ocean.
SPRI record no.: 187219

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