Do olfactory stimuli provide positional information for home-oriented avian navigation?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 90, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wallraff, Hans G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homing pigeon; Navigational map; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NAVIGATION; OLFACTORY CUE; ORNITHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 84897111031     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.01.012     Document Type: Article

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