Testing olfactory foraging strategies in an Antarctic seabird assemblage

• Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology
• Main Authors: Nevitt, Gabrielle, Reid, Keith, Trathan, Phil
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Company of Biologists Ltd 2004
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Biology and Microbiology; Antarctic; South Georgia Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Cape Petrels; Daption capense; Euphausia superba; Giant Petrels
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/12315/; http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/207/20/3537

Procellariiform seabirds (petrels, albatrosses and shearwaters) forage over thousands of square kilometres for patchily distributed prey resources. While these birds are known for their large olfactory bulbs and excellent sense of smell, how they use odour cues to locate prey patches in the vast oce...