Obligate vertebrate scavengers must be large soaring fliers
- 7 June 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Theoretical Biology
- Vol. 228 (3), 431-436
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.02.005
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