Navigational experience affects hippocampus size in homing pigeons

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 233-238

  Cnotka, Julia ^a,b   Möhle, Martin ^a   Rehkämper, Gerd ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b German Association of Poultry Breeders   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Hippocampus; Homing pigeon; Navigation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FLYING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COLUMBIDAE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; TELENCEPHALON;

COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 54149099382     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000165102     Document Type: Article

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