Strategies of young pigeons during 'map' learning

Journal of Navigation

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 431-448

  Schiffner, Ingo ^a   Pavkovic, Tina ^a   Siegmund, Bettina ^a   Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exploration; GPS tracking; Map learning; Pigeons homing

Indexed keywords

GPS-TRACKING; MAP LEARNING; PIGEONS HOMING; TRACKING DEVICES;

BUILDINGS;

NAVIGATION;

DATA INTERPRETATION; GPS; MAP; NAVIGATION; TRACKING;

AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 79958864857     PISSN: 03734633     EISSN: 14697785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0373463311000063     Document Type: Article

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