Evidence for olfactory search in wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans

GA Nevitt, M Losekoot… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
… For a seabird foraging over the ocean, this scenario suggests that olfactory search would
be … in freely ranging wandering albatrosses. We found that initial olfactory detection was …

Insight of scent: experimental evidence of olfactory capabilities in the wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans)

J Mardon, AP Nesterova, J Traugott… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
… of olfactory capabilities in the wandering albatross finds special significance in the number
of descriptive investigations and hypotheses that have resulted from the study of albatross

Olfactory search behaviour in the wandering albatross is predicted to give rise to Lévy flight movement patterns

AM Reynolds - Animal Behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
… Attributing Lévy flights to wandering albatrosses now … to be an emergent property of
olfactory searching in turbulent … patterns of the wandering albatross and provides new insights …

Olfactory foraging by Antarctic procellariiform seabirds: life at high Reynolds numbers

GA Nevitt - The Biological Bulletin, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
… The olfactory sensitivities of wandering albatrosses to squid-related odors have not been
explored, but albatrosses have been seen to recruit to fishy odors (eg, herring oil, cod liver oil) …

Anatomical evidence for olfactory function in some species of birds

BG Bang - Nature, 1960 - Springer
olfactory perception in albatrosses, Loye Miller's is selected becausc his observation cruisc
was planned and the birds were marked8 • Black-footed albatrosses … by olfaction between …

Free as a bird? Activity patterns of albatrosses during the nonbreeding period

EK Mackley, RA Phillips, JRD Silk… - Marine Ecology …, 2010 - int-res.com
… Therefore, the differences in nocturnal activity evident in this study may arise because
black-browed albatrosses increasingly rely upon olfaction when visual cues from prey and other …

Testing olfactory foraging strategies in an Antarctic seabird assemblage

G Nevitt, K Reid, P Trathan - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2004 - journals.biologists.com
… at control slicks, suggesting that these birds were attracted to olfactory cues from macerated
krill; (2) black-browed albatrosses were sighted only at scented slicks and never at control …

Sensitivity to dimethyl sulphide suggests a mechanism for olfactory navigation by seabirds

GA Nevitt, F Bonadonna - Biology Letters, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Petrels, albatrosses and other procellariiform seabirds have an excellent sense of smell,
and routinely navigate over the world's oceans by mechanisms that are not well understood. …

Foraging by seabirds on an olfactory landscape

G Nevitt - American Scientist, 1999 - search.proquest.com
… were six male albatrosses—of the species Diornedea exulans, the wandering albatross—…
include the albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters) use an olfactory landscape superimposed …

Olfactory foraging in Antarctic seabirds: a species-specific attraction to krill odors

G Nevitt - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1999 - int-res.com
… Procellariiform or 'tube-nosed' seabirds (ie the petrels, the albatrosses and the shearwaters)
have a remarkably developed olfactory neuro-anatomy compared to many other birds (Bang …

Olfactory guidance in foraging by procellariiforms

LV Hutchison, BM Wenzel - The Condor, 1980 - academic.oup.com
olfaction is still largely unexplored in all vertebrates, and notably so for birds. Among avian
olfactory systems, the nasal architecture and olfactory … clearly with albatrosses, shearwaters, …

[PDF][PDF] Magnetic cues: are they important in Black‐browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris orientation?

F Bonadonna, S Chamaillé‐Jammes, D Pinaud… - Ibis, 2003 - academia.edu
… -browed Albatrosses respond to food-related odour cues, suggesting that olfaction probably
… In conclusion, we cannot exclude the possibility that albatrosses could use magnetic cues to …

Avian olfaction

KE Stager - American Zoologist, 1967 - academic.oup.com
… We do know, however, that albatrosses, shearwaters, and petrels will readily respond and
orient to warm animal fat dripped on the water from upwind locations at sea (Murphy, 1936; …

Pelagic seabird flight patterns are consistent with a reliance on olfactory maps for oceanic navigation

AM Reynolds, JG Cecere, VH Paiva… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… navigation is common in vertebrates, and genetic studies show that the olfactory gene … on
pelagic birds, such as shearwaters and albatrosses, especially when there are concerns for …

Evolutionary and Hereditary Traits of an Albatross and its Aerodynamic Optimality

BC Mathew, JVML Jeyan, P Dutta… - IOP Conference Series …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
… Wind conditions and inherited genetic encodings play important roles in an albatross’s
migration cycle [24]. Albatrosses have a well developed system of olfaction. Their large olfactory

Olfactory perception and bulbar electrical activity in several avian species

BM Wenzel, MH Sieck - Physiology & Behavior, 1972 - Elsevier
… In some of the birds with large olfactory bulbs (shearwaters, albatross, vulture), two or three
electrodes were implanted in each bulb in an antero-posterior array. After surgery, all birds …

[HTML][HTML] From the eye of the albatrosses: a bird-borne camera shows an association between albatrosses and a killer whale in the Southern Ocean

KQ Sakamoto, A Takahashi, T Iwata, PN Trathan - PLoS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
… , suggests that wandering albatrosses, Diomedea exulans, may detect prey via olfactory
cues in … around foraging albatrosses should help provide new and additional insight into how …

The olfactory apparatus of tubenosed birds

BG Banc - Acta anat, 1966 - karger.com
… 2a shows the albatross olfactory concha with surface mucosa peeled away to expose trunks
of olfactory nerve; trunks to the septal olfactory epithelium are seen just above the label "2a”. …

Large aggregations of pelagic squid near the ocean surface at the Antarctic Polar Front, and their capture by grey-headed albatrosses

PG Rodhouse, PR Boyle - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2010 - academic.oup.com
albatrosses locate and catch squid at the APF. Although the squid approach the surface at
night, we discount the possibility that the albatrosses … detect the squid by olfaction. Fishers off …

Olfactory behavior of foraging procellariiforms

C Verheyden, P Jouventin - The Auk, 1994 - academic.oup.com
… of phylogenetic differences since two albatrosses (see above) approached the slicks exactly
as did nonprocellariiforms of the group 2. Species that use olfactory cues arrived first on the …