Bar-Headed Goose (IMAGE)

University of Exeter

Bar-Headed Goose

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An international team of scientists recently tracked the bar-headed goose while it migrated across the Himalayas. Now they have shown how these birds are able to tolerate running at top speed while breathing only 7% oxygen

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Nyambayar Batbayar

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