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Carrion-eating birds have a rather good sense of smell. (it's why they originally added the stinky stuff to natural gas: so they could spot pipeline leaks by where vultures were circling) The conventional wisdom used to be that other birds didn't, but: www.audubon.org/magazine/bir...
May 8, 2025, 4:46 PM
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