Body cooling and its energetic implications for feeding and diving of tufted ducks

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 720-730

  De Leeuw, Joep J ^a,b,d   Butler, Patrick J ^c   Woakes, Anthony J ^c   Zegwaard, Fulco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ENERGETICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; WATERFOWL;

AYTHYA FULIGULA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA;

EID: 0032216359     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516003     Document Type: Article

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