Evidence for biological L\'evy flights stands
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چکیده
Edwards et al. 1 revisited well-known studies reporting power-laws in the frequency distribution of flight duration of wandering albatrosses 2,3 , and concluded that no Lévy process 4,5 could model recent observations with higher resolution. Here we show that this re-analysis 1 suffers from a conceptual misunderstanding, and that the new albatross data remain consistent with a biological Lévy flight.
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