Digestive physiology is a determinant of foraging bout frequency in hummingbirds

Nature

Volumn 320, Issue 6057, 1986, Pages 62-63

  Diamond, Jared M ^a   Karasov, William H ^a,c   Phan, Duong ^a   Carpenter, F Lynn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PROLINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; DIGESTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIRDS; DIGESTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GLUCOSE; PROLINE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023043155     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/320062a0     Document Type: Article

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