Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
But how birds use these different senses, like the diversity in bill size and shape, varies almost as much from species to species. Whilst catfish have around 100,000 taste buds, rabbits around 17,000 and humans approximately 9,000, birds rarely exceed 100 of these receptors. The longest bird bill relative to body-size.
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