It Pays to Follow the Leader: Metabolic Cost of Flight is Lower for Trailing Birds in Small Groups

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024

Recommended citation: S. I. Friman, C. R. Elowe, S. Hao, L. Mendez, R. Ayala, I. Brown, C. Hagood, Y. Hedlund, D. Jackson, J. Killi, G. Orfanides, E. Ozcan, J. Ramirez, A. R. Gerson, K. S. Breuer, T. L. Hedrick. It pays to follow the leader: Metabolic cost of flight is lower for trailing birds in small groups [J]. PNAS, 2024, 121(26): e2319971121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2319971121