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  1. Hummingbird tongues are elastic micropumps

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Alejandro Rico-Guevara

  2. Bills as daggers? A test for sexually dimorphic weapons in a lekking hummingbird

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alejandro Rico-Guevara

  3. Genetic Differentiation, Niche Divergence, and the Origin and Maintenance of the Disjunct Distribution in the Blossomcrown Anthocephala floriceps (Trochilidae)

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2014, PLOS

    Dr Alejandro Rico-Guevara

  4. Hummingbird feeding mechanics: Comments on the capillarity model

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alejandro Rico-Guevara

  5. The hummingbird tongue is a fluid trap, not a capillary tube

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alejandro Rico-Guevara