Pigeons combine compass and landmark guidance in familiar route navigation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 7471-7476

  Biro, Dora ^a   Freeman, Robin ^a   Meade, Jessica ^a   Roberts, Stephen ^a   Guilford, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clock shift; Homing pigeon; Pilotage; Route recapitulation; Sun

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLUMBA LIVIA; FLIGHT; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HOMING PIGEON; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TECHNOLOGY; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; POPULATION MIGRATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; ENGLAND; HOMING BEHAVIOR; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250674509     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0701575104     Document Type: Article

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