Altered Orientation and Flight Paths of Pigeons Reared on Gravity Anomalies: A GPS Tracking Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Blaser, Nicole ^a   Guskov, Sergei I ^c   Meskenaite, Virginia ^a   Kanevskyi, Valerii A ^b   Lipp, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b High Technology Institute   (Ukraine)

^c Ukrainian Humanities Institute   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLIGHT PATH; FLYING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVITY; GRAVITY ANOMALY; LONG DISTANCE MIGRANT; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PIGEON; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GRAVITATION; HOMING BEHAVIOR; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); ORIENTATION;

EID: 84886004633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077102     Document Type: Article

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