Olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms
Abstract After 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 win...
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oai:doaj.org-article:2bf7e69149dd47c290bd6493f57cc8de2021-12-02T11:41:26ZOlfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms10.1038/s41598-018-29919-02045-2322https://doaj.org/article/2bf7e69149dd47c290bd6493f57cc8de2018-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29919-0https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract After 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 distributions. Such distributions were previously identified in three species of Atlantic and Mediterranean shearwaters but crucially it has not been demonstrated that these distributions are wind-speed dependent, as expected if navigation was olfactory-cued. Here we show that the distributions are wind-speed dependent, in accordance with theoretical expectations. We thereby link movement patterns to underlying generative mechanisms. Our novel analysis is consistent with the results of more traditional, non-mathematical, invasive methods and thereby provides independent evidence for olfactory-cued navigation in wild birds. Our non-invasive diagnostic tool can be applied across taxa, potentially allowing for the assessment of its pervasiveness.Milo AbolaffioAndy M. ReynoldsJacopo G. CecereVitor H. PaivaStefano FocardiNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2018) |
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Abstract After 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 distributions. Such distributions were previously identified in three species of Atlantic and Mediterranean shearwaters but crucially it has not been demonstrated that these distributions are wind-speed dependent, as expected if navigation was olfactory-cued. Here we show that the distributions are wind-speed dependent, in accordance with theoretical expectations. We thereby link movement patterns to underlying generative mechanisms. Our novel analysis is consistent with the results of more traditional, non-mathematical, invasive methods and thereby provides independent evidence for olfactory-cued navigation in wild birds. Our non-invasive diagnostic tool can be applied across taxa, potentially allowing for the assessment of its pervasiveness. |
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Milo Abolaffio Andy M. Reynolds Jacopo G. Cecere Vitor H. Paiva Stefano Focardi |
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Milo Abolaffio Andy M. Reynolds Jacopo G. Cecere Vitor H. Paiva Stefano Focardi |
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Milo Abolaffio |
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Olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms |
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Olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms |
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Olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms |
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Olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms |
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Olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms |
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olfactory-cued navigation in shearwaters: linking movement patterns to mechanisms |
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