The roles of the sun and the landscape in pigeon homing

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2121-2126

  Wall'raff, Hans G ^a   Chappell, Jackie ^b   Guilford, Tim ^b  

^a Univ Zurich Max Planck Inst F V   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clock shift; Columba livia; Homing; Landmarks; Landscape; Navigation; Odours; Olfaction; Orientation; Pigeon; Sun compass

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032831299     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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