Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm

Overview

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.

Details

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published

2005-01-12

Pages

229

Language

EN

Categories

Psychology / General, Science / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, Science / Life Sciences / Biology, Science / Life Sciences / Ecology, Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Science / Life Sciences / General, Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience

ISBN-13

9783540223856