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Sight or smell: which senses do scavenging raptors use to find food?

Raptors are usually considered to be mainly visually dependent, and the use of other sensory modalities has rarely been studied in these birds. Here, we investigated experimentally which senses (vision and/or olfaction) Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) and Southern caracaras (Caracara plancus) use t...

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Autores principales: Potier, Simon, Duriez, Olivier, Célérier, Aurélie, Liegeois, Jean-Louis, Bonadonna, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30367315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-018-1220-0