Olfaction and the navigational performance of homing pigeons on the atlantic coast of Morocco

Italian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 359-364

  Gagliardo, Anna ^a   El Agbani, Mohammed Aziz ^b   Bingman, Verner P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Institut Scientifique   (Morocco)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homing pigeons; Navigational map; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

HOMING BEHAVIOR; NAVIGATION; OLFACTION;

MOROCCO;

COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 0034474143     PISSN: 11250003     EISSN: 17485851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11250000009356340     Document Type: Article

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