Increase in Pairs of the Short-tailed Albatross Diomedea albatrus at an Artificial Breeding Ground

Nutritional Autopsy of a Short-tailed Albatross (Diomedea albatrus) Weakened by Fishhook, Washed Ashore in Central Honshu, Japan

mouth of Fuji River, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Honshu and was brought to the nearby Shizuoka Municipal Nihondaira Zoo the same day. The bird died on 30 March, after being kept for 12 days at the Zoo. The bird was fed an average daily amount 622g of fish: mainly horse mackerel (Trachurus japonicus), some squid (Todarodes pacificus) and krill (Euphausia superba), but most of the food was regur...

Probable extirpation of a breeding colony of Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) on Bermuda by Pleistocene sea-level rise.

Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) do not occur in the North Atlantic Ocean today except as vagrants, although five species were present in the early Pliocene. No fossil breeding sites of albatrosses were known previously. The timing of extinction of albatrosses in the North Atlantic was likewise unknown. Deposits that formed near present-day sea level along the southeastern shore of Bermuda contain rem...

Evidence for olfactory search in wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

Wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) forage over thousands of square kilometers of open ocean for patchily distributed live prey and carrion. These birds have large olfactory bulbs and respond to fishy-scented odors in at-sea trials, suggesting that olfaction plays a role in natural foraging behavior. With the advent of new, fine-scale tracking technologies, we are beginning to explore how ...

Courtship Behaviour of the Wandering Albatross Diomedea Exulans at Bird Island , South Georgia

Short-term prediction of atmospheric concentrations of ground-level ozone in Karaj using artificial neural network

Air pollution is a challenging issue in some of the large cities in developing countries. Air quality monitoring and interpretation of data are two important factors for air quality management in urban areas. Several methods exist to analyze air quality. Among them, we applied the dynamic neural network (TDNN) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) methods to predict the concentrations of ground-level...