"Let There be Light!" pigeon eggs are regularly exposed to light during breeding

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 62-67

  Buschmann, Jens Uwe F ^a   Manns, Martina ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Tectofugal system; Visual lateralisation

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; CLUTCH SIZE; HATCHING; LIGHT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PIGEON; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; COLUMBIDAE; EGGS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 33646775703     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.03.012     Document Type: Article

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