Short distance phase shifts revisited: Tracking clock-shifted homing pigeons (Rock Dove Columba livia) close to the loft

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Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 111-118

  Holland, Richard ^a,d   Bonadonna, Fransisco ^b   Dall'Antonia, Luigi ^c   Benvenuti, Silvano ^b   De Perera, Theresa Burt ^a   Guilford, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMING BEHAVIOR; NAVIGATION;

COLUMBA LIVA;

EID: 0033971002     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2000.tb07690.x     Document Type: Article

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