Could osmotaxis explain the ability of blue petrels to return to their burrows at night?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1485-1489

  Bonadonna, Francesco ^a   Spaggiari, Jérôme ^a   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Anosmia; Blue petrel; Halobaena caerulea; Homing; Kerguelen archipelago; Olfaction; Orientation; Zinc sulphate

Indexed keywords

ZINC SULFATE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; SMELL; ZINC SULFATE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CICONIIFORMES; HALOBAENA CAERULEA;

EID: 0035745371     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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