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    • The Allometry of Giant Flightless Birds 

      Dickison, Michael R. (2007-05-10)
      Despite our intuition, birds are no smaller than mammals when the constraints of a flying body plan are taken into account. Nevertheless, the largest mammals are ten times the mass of the largest birds. Allometric equations ...