Homing pigeons develop local route stereotypy

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1558, 2005, Pages 17-23

  Meade, Jessica ^a   Biro, Dora ^a   Guilford, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GPS tracking; Homing pigeon; Navigation; Pilotage; Route recapitulation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NAVIGATION; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; MAGNETISM; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; STEREOTYPY; VISION;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 17044433090     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2873     Document Type: Article

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