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Physiological, Ecological, and Evolutionary Bases for the Avoidance of Chemical Irritants by Birds

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Part of the book series: Current Ornithology ((CUOR,volume 14))

Abstract

The chemical senses in birds are only infrequently considered. This dearth of general appreciation of avian chemical sensory systems is understandable. Vision, audition, tactile, and thermal sensory systems have readily quantifiable stimuli and relatively few mediating receptor systems. In contrast, chemical signals are mediated by numerous sensory systems, the stimuli themselves are myriad, and the method by which the stimuli reach the receptor systems can at best be described as chaotic. Nonetheless the chemical senses are critical to the survival and feeding ecology of species. Recent reviews have described the functional and adaptive aspects of avian olfactory and gustatory systems (Waldvogel, 1989; Kare and Brand, 1986; Berkhoudt, 1985; Bang and Wenzel, 1986; Wenzel, 1973). This review considers the least generally understood chemical sensory system of birds, the avian trigeminal system.

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