Homing pigeons (Columba livia f. domestica) can use magnetic cues for locating food

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 813-819

  Thalau, Peter ^a   Holtkamp Rötzler, Elke ^a   Fleissner, Gerta ^a   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Magnetic field; Pigeon

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GAMEBIRD; MAGNETIC FIELD; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PIGEON;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MAGNETICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 34548445088     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0259-6     Document Type: Article

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