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Olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms

After foraging in the open ocean pelagic birds can pinpoint their breeding colonies, located on remote islands in visually featureless seascapes. This remarkable ability to navigate over vast distances has been attributed to the birds being able to learn an olfactory map on the basis of wind-borne o...

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Autores principales: Abolaffio, Milo, Reynolds, Andy M., Cecere, Jacopo G., Paiva, Vitor H., Focardi, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30072695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29919-0