Titre :	Avian navigation: pigeon homing as a paradigm
Type de document :	livre
Auteurs :	Wallraff, H.G.
Editeur :	Berlin : Springer
Année de publication :	2005
Importance :	229 p.
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-3-540-22385-6
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés :	Animal migration  Birds  Pigeons
Résumé :	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. [Résumé éditeur]
En ligne :	http://books.google.com/books?id=GJ3NBxmCyvAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr

Avian navigation: pigeon homing as a paradigm [livre] / Wallraff, H.G. . - Berlin : Springer, 2005 . - 229 p.
ISBN : 978-3-540-22385-6
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Mots-clés :	Animal migration  Birds  Pigeons
Résumé :	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. [Résumé éditeur]
En ligne :	http://books.google.com/books?id=GJ3NBxmCyvAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr