Cormorants keep their power: Visual resolution in a pursuit-diving bird under amphibious and turbid conditions

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Strod, Tamir ^a,b   Arad, Zeev ^a   Izhaki, Ido ^c   Katzir, Gadi ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Israel Electric Corporation   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE;

EID: 3042649198     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.05.009     Document Type: Note

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