TY - JOUR

T1 - How Bar-Headed Geese Fly Over the Himalayas

AU - Scott, G.R.

AU - Hawkes, L.A.

AU - Frappell, P.B.

AU - Butler, P.J.

AU - Bishop, C.M.

AU - Milsom, W.K.

PY - 2015/3/1

Y1 - 2015/3/1

N2 - Bar-headed geese cross the Himalayas on one of the most iconic high-altitude migrations in the world. Heart rates and metabolic costs of flight increase with elevation and can be near maximal during steep climbs. Their ability to sustain the high oxygen demands of flight in air that is exceedingly oxygen-thin depends on the unique cardiorespiratory physiology of birds in general along with several evolved specializations across the O2 transport cascade.

AB - Bar-headed geese cross the Himalayas on one of the most iconic high-altitude migrations in the world. Heart rates and metabolic costs of flight increase with elevation and can be near maximal during steep climbs. Their ability to sustain the high oxygen demands of flight in air that is exceedingly oxygen-thin depends on the unique cardiorespiratory physiology of birds in general along with several evolved specializations across the O2 transport cascade.

U2 - 10.1152/physiol.00050.2014

DO - 10.1152/physiol.00050.2014

M3 - Article

VL - 30

SP - 107

EP - 115

JO - Physiology

JF - Physiology

SN - 1548-9213

IS - 2

ER -