Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm

Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9783540264323
ISBN-13 : 3540264329
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Book Synopsis Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm by : Hans G. Wallraff

Download or read book Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm written by Hans G. Wallraff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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