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Surpassing Mt. Everest: extreme flight performance of alpine bumble-bees by Michael E. Dillon, and Robert Dudley Biology Letters Volume 10(2):20130922.

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1 Surpassing Mt. Everest: extreme flight performance of alpine bumble-bees by Michael E. Dillon, and Robert Dudley Biology Letters Volume 10(2):20130922 February 5, 2014 ©2014 by The Royal Society

2 Maximum hybobaric altitudes (purple points and boxplot) estimated as the midpoint between altitudes of the highest successful flights (blue points) and of flight failures (red points) for six bumble-bees captured at 3250 m in western China. Michael E. Dillon, and Robert Dudley Biol. Lett. 2014;10:20130922 ©2014 by The Royal Society

3 Changes in stroke angles during bumble-bee flight at simulated high altitude. Michael E. Dillon, and Robert Dudley Biol. Lett. 2014;10:20130922 ©2014 by The Royal Society

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