Finding home: The final step of the pigeons' homing process studied with a GPS data logger

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1132-1138

  Gagliardo, Anna ^a   Ioalè, Paolo ^a   Savini, Maria ^a   Lipp, Hans Peter ^b   Dell'Omo, Giacomo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Familiar landmark; Flight tracks; Homing; Navigation; Pigeon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; ITALY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; VISION;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; GEOGRAPHY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; ITALY; ORIENTATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 34248373206     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.003244     Document Type: Article

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