Conflicting evidence about long-distance animal navigation

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5788, 2006, Pages 791-794

  Alerstam, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ECOSYSTEMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; LONG-DISTANCE ANIMAL NAVIGATION; MAGNETIC COMPASS MECHANISMS; SENSORY CAPABILITIES;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

ANIMAL; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATION; NAVIGATION; ORIENTATION;

AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL GENETICS; ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GEOMETRY; LONG DISTANCE ANIMAL NAVIGATION; MAGNETISM; MIGRATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUN; TRAVEL;

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CUES; EVOLUTION; FISHES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; MAGNETICS; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; SMELL; TELEMETRY; TURTLES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33747124337     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1129048     Document Type: Review

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