Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Hans G Wallraff
• ISBN-13: 978-3540264323
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 612.8 Nervous system Sensory functions
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
• Mô tả vật lý: XII, 229 p. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 289296
• Chủ đề: 1. Animal migration; 2. Human behavior; 3. Psychobiology; 4. Behavioral Neuroscience; 5. Animal Migration

Tóm tắt

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.