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Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-3-540-26432-3

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This monograph summarizes our current knowledge about pigeon homing, about the birds' application of a sun compass and a magnetic compass, of a visual topographical map within a familiar area and -- most surprisingly -- of an olfactory map using atmospheric chemosignals as indicators of position in distant unfamiliar areas


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Heimkehrvermögen, Vögel, Orientierung, Vögel, Tauben, Vogelnavigation, atmosphere, bird, bird navigation, breeding, homing, magnetic field, orientation, birds, pigeons, sun, synthesis