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Titre :	Avian forensics: predicting body fat and body mass from wing remains
Auteurs :	C. G. Guglielmo, Auteur ; J. G. Burns, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Journal of Avian Biology (32(2) JUN 2001)
Article en page(s) :	198-203
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	We describe the development of a method to predict percent body fat of killed birds from the percent fat in the most distal wing tissue, which is often left uneaten by aerial predators. When combined with a measure of body structural size, such as tarsus, culmen or keel length, percent wing fat can be used to predict fresh body mass at the time of death. These techniques may prove useful in field studies of mass-dependent predation risk.

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