Geese Use 'Roller Coaster' Strategy to Fly Over Himalayas (6 of 12) (IMAGE)

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Geese Use 'Roller Coaster' Strategy to Fly Over Himalayas (6 of 12)

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Bar-headed geese Anser indicus nesting on a cliff in Mongolia. This material relates to papers that appeared in the January 16, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, Charles M. Bishop at the University of Bangor in Bangor, UK , and colleagues was titled, 'The roller coaster flight strategy of bar-headed geese conserves energy during Himalayan migrations.'

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[Credit: Nyambayar Batbayar]

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