TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm
A1  - Wallraff, Hans G.
LA  - English
PP  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer
YR  - 2005
ED  - 1st ed. 2005.
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/978-3-540-26432-3
AB  - 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.
OP  - 229
CN  - QL750-795
SN  - 9783540264323
KW  - Behavioral sciences.
KW  - Animal ecology.
KW  - Behavioral Sciences.
KW  - Animal Ecology.
ER  -