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Himalayan heights pose no problem for bees

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Alpine bumblebees can hover at pressures equivalent to 9,000-metre altitudes.

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  1. Dillon, M. E. & Dudley, R. Biol. Lett. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0922 (2014).

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  1. Daniel Cossins
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Cossins, D. Himalayan heights pose no problem for bees. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.14670

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