Testing the navigational abilities of ocean migrants: Displacement experiments on green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 528-534

  Luschi, P ^a   Akesson S ^a   Broderick, A C ^a   Glen, F ^a   Godley, B J ^a   Papi, F ^a   Hays, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ascension Island; Chemosensory hypothesis; Magnetic map; Navigation; Turtles

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; NAVIGATION; TURTLE; WIND DIRECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; MYDAS; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0035185581     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650100396     Document Type: Article

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