Route recognition in the homing pigeon, Columba livia

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 975-980

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; BIRD; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; GPS; ROUTING; SITE SELECTION; TRACKING; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 33750317484     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.11.029     Document Type: Article

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