The Allometry of Giant Flightless Birds
Despite our intuition, birds are no smaller than mammals when the constraints of a flying body plan are taken into account. Nevertheless, the largest mammals are ten times the mass of the largest birds. Allometric equations generated for anseriforms and ratites suggest mid-shaft femur circumference...
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10161/200 |