The first study of how individual wandering albatrosses find food shows that the birds rely heavily on their sense of smell. The birds can pick up a scent from several miles away, U.S. and French researchers have found. According to the study of UC Davis and the Marine Laboratory and Henri Weimerskirch of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, this is the first time anyone has looked at the odor-tracking behavior of individual birds in the wild using remote techniques. (source: news.ucdavis.edu)
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