Staying in plastic containers interferes with the orientation of clock-shifted homing pigeons

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 695-704

  Sandberg, Roland ^a,b   Muth, Renate ^a   Pfabe, Claudia ^a   Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; HOMING BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLIIFORMES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 0033106248     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1030     Document Type: Article

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