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Olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms
Abolaffio, Milo; Reynolds, Andy M; Cecere, Jacopo G; Paiva, Vítor H.; Focardi, StefanoAfter 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 odors. Odor-cued navigation has been linked mechanistically to displacements with exponentially-truncated power-law...
Lévy patterns in seabirds are multifaceted describing both spatial and temporal...
Reynolds, Andrew M.; Paiva, Vitor H.; Cecere, Jacopo G.; Focardi, StefanoBackground: The flight patterns of albatrosses and shearwaters have become a touchstone for much of Lévy flight research, spawning an extensive field of enquiry. There is now compelling evidence that the flight patterns of these seabirds would have been appreciated by Paul Lévy, the mathematician after whom Lévy flights are named. Here we show that Lévy patterns (here taken to mean spatial or temporal patterns ...