Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
A Dominican missionary in Mozambique in the 16th century was astounded to find honeyguides eating the wax from his altar candles! I remember watching a David Attenborough episode once where he tested the theory that new world vultures could locate carcasses by smell alone. And again, there is great variation amongst different species.
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