How Bar-Headed Geese Fly Over the Himalayas | Zendy

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How Bar-Headed Geese Fly Over the Himalayas

Author(s) -

Graham R. Scott,

Lucy A. Hawkes,

Peter B. Frappell,

P. J. Butler,

Charles M. Bishop,

William K. Milsom

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

physiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.14

H-Index - 125

eISSN - 1548-9213

pISSN - 1548-9221

DOI - 10.1152/physiol.00050.2014

Subject(s) - cardiorespiratory fitness , effects of high altitude on humans , oxygen transport , elevation (ballistics) , altitude (triangle) , bar (unit) , low altitude , biology , ecology , zoology , oxygen , geography , physiology , anatomy , meteorology , chemistry , engineering , mathematics , geometry , organic chemistry , structural engineering

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.

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