Filter Feeding in Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber)
- 1 May 1995
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 97 (2) , 297-324
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1369017
Abstract
We propose a model of filter feeding in Caribbean (Phoenicopterus r. ruber) and Greater Flamingos (P. r. roseus) that is based on a description of the oropharyn...Keywords
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