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Café wall illusion: Gregory and Heard (1979).
“Some 60 years ago” and “I noticed that a view of the blue sky”: Karl von Frisch
describes his remarkable work with honeybees in his Nobel Prize lecture,
von Frisch (1974).
Electroreception in sharks and rays: Kalmijn (1971).
Classic demonstration that magnets interfere with navigational behavior of
pigeons when the sun’s position is obscured by clouds: Keeton (1971).Chapter 12
A marvelous book on the art of perfumery is Aftel (2001), by artisan perfumer
Mandy Aftel.
Recent results in the cellular and molecular biology of olfaction are presented
in the Nobel Prize lectures of Richard Axel (2005) and Linda Buck (2005) and
in Kandel et al. (2013, chap. 32).
Individual differences in excretion and perception of the characteristic odor
present in urine after eating asparagus have been investigated by Pelchat,
Bykowski, Duke, and Reed (2011).
Alfred Russel Wallace’s poetic description of the durian fruit was originally
published as a letter from Borneo: Wallace (1856). A slightly edited version
appears in his later narrative of travels and observations in Southeast Asia:
Wallace (1869).
The chemistry of truffle aroma is reviewed by Splivallo, Ottonello, Mello, and
Karlovsky (2010). The creation of flavored truffle oils by adding chemicals to
olive oil is discussed in Patterson (2007).
Brief discussion of pheromones: Stowers and Marton (2005).
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