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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 Exemplaires (1)
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