Air breathers under water: Diving mammals and birds

Respiratory Physiology of Vertebrates: Life with and Without Oxygen

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 222-264

  Folkow, Lars P ^a   Blix, Arnoldus Schytte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

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