Diving angle of great cormorants

Polar Bioscience

Volumn , Issue 18, 2005, Pages 54-59

  Ropert Coudert, Yan ^a   Grémillet, David ^b   Kato, Akiko ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b Ctr d'Ecol/Physiol Energ CNRS   (France)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dive angle; Great cormorants; Pre dive leap; Prey predators; Shallow divers

Indexed keywords

AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO;

EID: 17644401354     PISSN: 13446231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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