| 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 |
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