Limits to vertebrate locomotor energetics suggested by hummingbirds hovering in heliox
- 1 October 1995
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 377 (6551) , 722-725
- https://doi.org/10.1038/377722a0
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