Turkey Vultures Have a Keen Sense of Smell and Now We Know Why

Turkey Vultures Have a Keen Sense of Smell and Now We Know Why

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Inside the brains of this olfactory king of the roost is a powerful cellular mechanism for detecting carrion from hundreds of feet away

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