The orientational salience of visual cues to the homing pigeon

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 287-296

  Chappell, Jackie ^a   Guilford, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMING PIGEON; SUN COMPASS; VISUAL CUE;

COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 0031060883     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0402     Document Type: Article

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