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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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Published in:Sci Rep
Main Authors: Abolaffio, Milo, Reynolds, Andy M., Cecere, Jacopo G., Paiva, Vitor H., Focardi, Stefano
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072774/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30072695
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29919-0
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