Pigeon homing: Site simulation experiments with bird-borne direction recorders

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-339

  Dall'Antonia, Paolo ^a   Dall'Antonia, Luigi ^b   Ribolini, Alberto ^b   Ioalè, Paolo ^a   Benvenuti, Silvano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direction recorder; Homing; Orientation; Pigeon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; ORIENTATION; PIGEON; RECORDER; SMELLING;

EID: 0032974737     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00054-0     Document Type: Article

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