Olfactory navigation: Failure to attempt replication of critical experiments keeps controversy alive. Reply to Wallraff

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 90, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Phillips, John B ^a   Jorge, Paulo E ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Homing pigeon; Navigational map; Olfactory activation; Path integration

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAP; NAVIGATION; OLFACTORY CUE; ORNITHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 84897112217     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.01.013     Document Type: Article

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