Coordinated movements prevent jamming in an emperor penguin huddle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Zitterbart, Daniel P ^a,b   Wienecke, Barbara ^c   Butler, James P ^d,e   Fabry, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTENODYTES FORSTERI; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; TIME; WALKING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY;

APTENODYTES FORSTERI; SPHENISCIDAE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOVEMENT; SPHENISCIDAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957847288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020260     Document Type: Article

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