Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm
Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm
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.
Observation Data Used to Investigate Pigeon Homing
Basic Features of Pigeon HomingPotential Input Signals Exploitable for Home-Finding
The Role of the Sun
The Role of the Geomagnetic Field
The Role of the Chemical Atmosphere
The Role of the Visual Landscape
The Neural Bases of Pigeon Homing
Homing in Other Birds
Research History: Blind Alleys and an Unexpected Passage
Overall Synthesis and Perspective.
Wallraff, Hans G.
| ISBN | 978-3-540-22385-6 |
|---|---|
| Medientyp | Buch |
| Copyrightjahr | 2005 |
| Verlag | Springer, Berlin |
| Umfang | XII, 229 Seiten |
| Sprache | Englisch |
