Insight of scent: Experimental evidence of olfactory capabilities in the wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 558-563

  Mardon, J ^a,b   Nesterova, A P ^a   Traugott, J ^c   Saunders, S M ^b   Bonadonna, F ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Diomedea exulans; Multimodal; Olfaction; Signal detection theory; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIRD; FEMALE; MALE; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; VISION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CUES; FEMALE; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SMELL; VISION, OCULAR;

AVES; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 76149097173     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.032979     Document Type: Article

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