Sugar digestion efficiencies of Gurney's sugarbirds, Malachite sunbirds, and Black sunbirds

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 93-99

  Downs, Colleen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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EID: 0030907215     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/639551     Document Type: Article

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