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Further evidence for visual landmark involvement in the pigeon's familiar area map
- Abstract:
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In previous experiments suggesting that previewing visual landscapes speeds homing from familiar release sites, restricted access to olfactory cues may have artefactually encouraged homing pigeons, Columba liviato resort to visual landmark orientation. Since evidence for the role of visual landmarks in wide-ranging avian orientation is still equivocal, Braithwaite and Guilford's (1991, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B245, 183-186) 'previewing' experiments were replicated: birds were allowed or deni...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Animal behaviour
- Volume:
- 53
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 1203-1209
- Publication date:
- 1997-06-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0003-3472
- Source identifiers:
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386928
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- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:386928
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- 1997
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