Scaling of Soaring Seabirds and Implications for Flight Abilities of Giant Pterosaurs

• Katsufumi Sato ,

  * E-mail: katsu@ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  Affiliation International Coastal Research Center, Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan

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• Kentaro Q. Sakamoto,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yutaka Watanuki,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan

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• Akinori Takahashi,

  Affiliation National Institute of Polar Research, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan

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• Nobuhiro Katsumata,

  Affiliation International Coastal Research Center, Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan

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• Charles-André Bost,

  Affiliation Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé-CNRS, Villier en Bois, Beauvoir/Niort, France

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• Henri Weimerskirch

  Affiliation Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé-CNRS, Villier en Bois, Beauvoir/Niort, France

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