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Anatomical evidence for scent guided foraging in the turkey vulture

The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) is a widespread, scavenging species in the Western Hemisphere that locates carrion by smell. Scent guided foraging is associated with an expansion of the olfactory bulbs of the brain in vertebrates, but no such neuroanatomical data exists for vultures. We provide...

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Autores principales: Grigg, Nathan P., Krilow, Justin M., Gutierrez-Ibanez, Cristian, Wylie, Douglas R., Graves, Gary R., Iwaniuk, Andrew N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29234134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17794-0