The preferred compass directions of homing pigeons can be affected by suitable screening of the home loft

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 233-254

  Ioalé, Paolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Homing pigeons; Initial orientation; Loft screening; Preferred compass direction

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 0030451947     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1996.9522915     Document Type: Article

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