Evidence for olfactory search in wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4576-4581

  Nevitt, Gabrielle A ^a,b   Losekoot, Marcel ^a,b   Weimerskirch, Henri ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Area restricted search; Foraging; Olfaction; Plume tracking; Subantarctic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; FLYING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PELAGIC ZONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; SMELLING; THERMOMETER; ANIMAL; BIRD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; TIME; WIND;

AVES; DIOMEDEA EXULANS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMELL; TIME FACTORS; WIND;

EID: 42449145212     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709047105     Document Type: Article

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