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A Wind-Tunnel Study of Gliding Flight in the Pigeon Columba Livia
C. J. PENNYCUICK
Journal of Experimental Biology 1968 49: 509-526;
C. J. PENNYCUICK
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vol. 49 no. 3, 509-526


Published By 
The Company of Biologists Ltd
Print ISSN 
0022-0949
Online ISSN 
1477-9145
History 
  • Received April 16, 1968
  • Published online December 1, 1968.
Copyright & Usage 
Copyright © 1968 The Company of Biologists Ltd.


Author Information

  1. C. J. PENNYCUICK
  1. Department of Zoology, University of Bristol; Department of Zoology, University College Nairobi, P.O. Box 30197, Nairobi, Kenya.

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