Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm PDF
by Hans G. Wallraff
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How migratory birds can navigate home from their wintering grounds to their breeding sites over hundreds and thousands of kilometres has been an admired mystery over more than a century. Profound advances towards a solution of this problem have been achieved with a model bird, the homing pigeon. This monograph summarizes our current knowledge about pigeon homing, about the birds' application of a sun compass and a magnetic compass, of a visual topographical map within a familiar area and -- most surprisingly -- of an olfactory map using atmospheric chemosignals as indicators of position in distant unfamiliar areas.
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- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication Date:13/11/2005
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- ISBN:9783540264323
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- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication Date:13/11/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9783540264323