I was watching the second one the Lost World today and that's where I heard it and started researching it from there. Once in a while Hollywood actually is educational rather than propagandal.... if that's a word.

Sounds like the wolverine of the south!

They say a canine's sense of smell is 100 times better than humans. If that's so, why do they have to get so close to sniff each other's arse?

This is why I can't sleep at night!

Because they smell THAT good

That doesn't surprise me that they have great great noses. They stink so bad themselves it is unbelievable. I know of a spot where they roost every night and if you are close to the spot and the wind is right you can smell those birds. They have an awful smell and I dislike them very much.

I'd imagine that anything that spends its time burying its head in a rotten road killed carcass, can't smell too good itself.

Not to split hairs with you, but I worked in the field the last tweny years before retiring, and when we looked for a leak, we looked for dead vegitation over the leak and used "sniffers".

Natural gas has no oder naturally, they add Mercaptain to it to give it the rotten egg smell it has. Most major pipelines have none added till it is branched off for use.

Never once in twenty years did I ever hear of birds used to find a gas leak!

I have a hypothesis that they can't smell an otter carcass. They don't ever touch them.

Did you know that TV protect themselves by vomiting on there victims.

Thank you, i stand corrected. I always wondered when they added the smell.

The turkey vultures, we call them buzzards here, do have a keen sense of smell. How much better than other birds would be up for discussion.

My get a way place is 4.5-5 miles from a mid sized river that has a few buzzards roosts. It also has a few eagle nests in the same area. When we put out carcasses for shooting yotes it is usually the eagles that get there first to feed at it. The crows are always present and come from every direction. The buzzards are last in line.

The yotes feed mostly at night along with the possums and occasional mink. With this cold snap I expect to see a few yotes during the day though.

Two weeks ago I seen my first golden eagles around these parts. I wasn't sure till I talked to a few others that have been seeing them also.