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Torpor and metabolism in hummingbirds

✍ Scribed by Prinzinger, R; Schuchmann, K.-L; Krüger, Kristine


Book ID
123439941
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1982
Tongue
English
Weight
933 KB
Volume
73
Category
Article
ISSN
0300-9629

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