Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm
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| Management number | 232054965 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$49.52 | Model Number | 232054965 | ||
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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. Read more
| ASIN | B000PC11MY |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-3540264323 |
| Edition | 2005th |
| Language | English |
| File size | 4.4 MB |
| Page Flip | Not Enabled |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 241 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Publication date | November 13, 2005 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Not Enabled |
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