Pigeon homing along highways and exits

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1239-1249

  Lipp, Hans Peter ^a   Vyssotski, Alexei L ^a   Wolfer, David P ^a   Renaudineau, Sophie ^b   Savini, Maria ^c   Tröster, Gerhard ^d   Dell'Omo, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FLYING; GEOGRAPHY; ITALY; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; ITALY; ORIENTATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 3342997777     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.07.024     Document Type: Article

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