Navigational abilities of homing pigeons deprived of olfactory or trigeminally mediated magnetic information when young

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2046-2051

  Gagliardo, Anna ^a   Ioalè, Paolo ^a   Savini, Maria ^a   Wild, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Homing pigeon; Magnetic map; Olfaction; Trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DENERVATION; FLYING; MAGNETISM; OLFACTORY NERVE; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DENERVATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MAGNETICS; OLFACTORY NERVE; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 47949100103     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.017608     Document Type: Article

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