Flying at No Mechanical Energy Cost: Disclosing the Secret of Wandering Albatrosses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Sachs, Gottfried ^a   Traugott, Johannes ^a   Nesterova, Anna P ^b   Dell'Omo, Giacomo ^c   Kümmeth, Franz ^d   Heidrich, Wolfgang ^d   Vyssotski, Alexei L ^e   Bonadonna, Francesco ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Ornis Italica   (Italy)

^d e obs GmbH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIRCRAFT; ALBATROSS; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; BIRD; DYNAMIC SOARING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLIGHT; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ROBOTICS; WIND;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WIND;

AVES; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; DIOMEDEIDAE;

EID: 84866034561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041449     Document Type: Article

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