Buzzard identifies food by the pollen smell, yellow color
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Oriental honey buzzards, birds of prey, likely use a combination of their senses of smell and sight to identify nutritious pollen dough balls found in Taiwanese beehives, according to a study published July 15, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Shu-Yi Yang from National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, and colleagues.
Scientists think that raptors, birds that hunt and feed on other animals, may use their sense of smell to detect food, but …
