Data from: High flight costs, but low dive costs, in auks support the biomechanical hypothesis for flightlessness in penguins

• Main Authors: Elliott, Kyle H., Ricklefs, Robert E., Gaston, Anthony J., Hatch, Scott A., Speakman, John R., Davoren, Gail K.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2013
• Subjects: time-depth recorder; Uria lomvia; Phalacrocorax pelagicus; wing-propelled diver; accelerometer; triaxial acceleration; foot-propelled diver; Life sciences; medicine and health care; Coats Island; Nunavut; Middleton Island; Alaska; 59.4361N; 146.3289W; 62.5833° N; 82.7500° W; envir; demo; Dee; uria
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.23td2

Flight is a key adaptive trait. Despite its advantages, flight has been lost in several groups of birds, notably among seabirds, where flightlessness has evolved independently in at least five lineages. One hypothesis for the loss of flight among seabirds is that animals moving between different med...