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Thermoregulation in the mouths of feeding gray whales

J E Heyning1, J G Mead

  • 1Section of Vertebrates, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA. heyning@bcf.usc.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|November 14, 1997
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