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Sun Navigation in Homing Pigeons

... The existence of some form of accurate time mechanism is an essential part of the full hypothesis, though in theory latitude could be obtained without such a chronometer, from the altitu[r] ... See full document

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Sun Navigation in Homing Pigeons Attempts to shift Sun Coordinates

... 3, the angle between it and the direction to the home loft is called the 'Home Error'; the difference between the 10 mile track bearing and the previous training direction is the ' Compa[r] ... See full document

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Evidence for discrete landmark use by pigeons during homing

... how homing pigeons (Columba livia ...underlying navigation in familiar territory have received less ...by pigeons, the role of visual environmental features in guiding navigation over ... See full document

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Homing experiments on pigeons subjected to bilateral destruction of the paratympanic organ

... control pigeons were released in two separate groups to test for a possible difference in their flight ...The pigeons were released singly and observed using 10×40 binoculars until they vanished from the ... See full document

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Requiem for a heavyweight – can anything more be learned from homing pigeons about the sensory and spatial representational basis of avian navigation?

... the navigation of homing pigeons by providing complete reconstructions of the routes pigeons take to return ...and homing speeds (see ...how pigeons move and navigate over ... See full document

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Development of the navigational system in homing pigeons: increase in complexity of the navigational map

... when homing from the closest site, CP, just ...1993), navigation by the grid map changes into navigation by the mosaic map of ...the pigeons get to their home – older, more experienced ... See full document

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The roles of the sun and the landscape in pigeon homing

... experienced pigeons released many times at various sites around their ...the pigeons were familiar with the area of release and, moreover, were progressively trained to distrust their unreliable map-and- ... See full document

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Seven theses on pigeon homing deduced from empirical findings

... of pigeons does not exclusively reflect home-related navigation but includes components independent of the position with respect to ...Pigeon homing is a model case of bird homing in ...of ... See full document

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Pairs of pigeons act as behavioural units during route learning and co navigational leadership conflicts

... when homing as a pair, pigeons that possess different preferred homing routes will fly along a path that lies between their two individual routes, provided that these individual routes are within a ... See full document

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Tracking clock shifted homing pigeons from familiar release sites

... that homing pigeons use visual landmarks up to a distance of approximately 23 km, but attempts to replicate those results have failed (Schmidt-Koenig, 1966; Graue, ...clock-shifted pigeons had a mean ... See full document

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Homing pigeons (Columba livia) modulate wingbeat characteristics as a function of route familiarity

... of homing pigeons as they learn a homing ...of navigation and the energetic strategies employed by birds as they learn a route to a ... See full document

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Forty years of olfactory navigation in birds

... bird navigation: a group of pigeons with their olfactory nerves sectioned were released at an unfamiliar site and never returned; their intact companions rapidly flew back to the loft (Papi et ...anosmic ... See full document

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Asymmetry of different brain structures in homing pigeons with and without navigational experience

... Before discussing the brain data in detail we would like to address the question whether these asymmetries reflect an enlargement of one side or a decrease of the other side. This is difficult to decide. We know that ... See full document

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Following the sun: a mathematical analysis of the tracks of clock shifted homing pigeons

... final homing phase leading to the loft if there is only one point of decision; otherwise, a separate final homing phase follows, occasionally with intermediate phases before the final homing phase ... See full document

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Partial experience with the arc of the sun is sufficient for all day sun compass orientation in homing pigeons, Columba livia

... the sun (at ...the sun compass at a time of day when they have never seen the ...the sun in lower ...midnight sun before testing. Although Hoffmann (1953, 1960) did examine sun compass ... See full document

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Sun compass orientation in homing pigeons: compensation for different rates of change in azimuth?

... their sun compass must compensate for the apparent movement of the sun with the help of their internal ...the sun is not uniform, being much faster around noon than near sunrise and ...the ... See full document

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Homing Orientation in Pigeons in Relation to Opportunity to Observe the Sun Before Release

... Homing success Release and loft Piney Mt., Richmond Piney Mt., Durham Wilson, Durham Dugger Mt., White Pine Dugger Mt., Hillsboro Medoc, Durham Lick Stone, White Pine Lick Stone, Durham [r] ... See full document

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Homing pigeons use olfactory cues for navigation in england

... control pigeons show that, despite their fame as unfailing navigators, homing pigeons can perform poorly in orientation and ...of homing performance, by contrast, even in England because they ... See full document

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Magnetic Fields and the Orientation of Homing Pigeons under Sun

... Orientation of birds with 0-3 gauss coils compared to that of pigeons with a resistor substituted for the coils Mean vector Number Length of direction unit birds vector home 360'' 18 Jul[r] ... See full document

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The Experimental Investigation of Navigation in Homing Pigeons

... INVESTIGATION OF THE POSSIBLE FACTORS CONCERNED IN THE ORIENTATION OF PIGEONS IN THE HOMEWARD DIRECTION It has been shown that at least a proportion of pigeons are capable of orientating[r] ... See full document

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