Effects of monocular viewing on orientation in an arena at the release site and homing performance in pigeons

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 103-111

  Diekamp, Bettina ^a   Prior, Helmut ^a   Ioalè, Paolo ^b   Odetti, Francesca ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^a   Gagliardo, Anna ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arena; Asymmetry; Homing; Lateralization; Pigeon; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; EYE DOMINANCE; FLIGHT; HEMISPHERE; MONOCULAR VISION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; OLFACTION DISORDERS; ORIENTATION; SMELL; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 0037126184     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00106-7     Document Type: Article

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