Accurate route demonstration by experienced homing pigeons does not improve subsequent homing performance in naive conspecifics

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1459, 2000, Pages 2301-2306

  Banks, A N ^a   Guilford, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Homing pigeons; Navigation; Social learning

Indexed keywords

HOMING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; NAVIGATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERFORMANCE; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 0034703859     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1283     Document Type: Article

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