Navigational abilities of adult and experienced homing pigeons deprived of olfactory or trigeminally mediated magnetic information

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3119-3124

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Homing pigeons; Magnetic map; Navigation; Olfactory map

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FLYING; MAGNETISM; ODOR; OLFACTORY NERVE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MAGNETICS; OLFACTORY NERVE; ORIENTATION; SMELL; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 70349161070     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.031864     Document Type: Article

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