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← Nature & AnimalsWhich physiological result occurs as vultures utilize soaring flight during migration?
A)Increased metabolic heat dissipation is achieved✓
B)Muscular ATP production rate rises sharply
C)Avian bone density increases immediately
D)Glycogen stores within liver are depleted
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The soaring flight in vultures uses thermals to minimize flapping that leads to the activation of countercurrent heat exchange within specialized blood vessels, reducing heat load because convective heat loss is much higher than metabolic heat production; therefore, decreased overheating occurs rather than increased muscle activity.
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