The orientational consequences of flocking behaviour in homing pigeons, Columba livia

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-23

  De Perera, Theresa Burt ^a   Guilford, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMING BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; ORIENTATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 0032961284     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1999.tb01217.x     Document Type: Article

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