Pigeon homing: The influence of topographical features in successive releases at the same site

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 137-147

  Bonadonna, F ^a   Antonia, L Dall' ^b   Ioale P ^b   Benvenuti, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direction recorder; Flight route; Homing; Orientation; Pigeon; Topography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FLIGHT; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PIGEON; TOPOGRAPHY;

HOMING BEHAVIOUR; PIGEON; TOPOGRAPHY;

COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 0030609655     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00054-X     Document Type: Article

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