Home-related and home-independent orientation of displaced pigeons with and without olfactory access to environmental air
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The homing behavior of Columba livia (homing pigeons) is analyzed in consideration of olfactory access to environmental air. Results show that generally, pigeons prefer northwesterly directions and they have home-independent orientations. Moreover, the temporal variability of the pigeons' homing behavior is, more or less, independent of the navigation process. Overall, the initial bearings of pigeons are simple outputs of a composite process within which reference to thelocation of home is only one aspect among others.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1993
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Influence of emotional factors on the initial orientation of pigeons
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A study consisting of 4 related experiments on homing pigeons' (Columba livia) flying behavior shows that immobilization and transport in the dark can lower home directedness and affect initial orientation. However, vanishing intervals, and homing speed and success are unaffected. Both immobilization and transport in the dark seem to reinforce the emotional aspect of orientation by strengthening the tendency to fly in a preferred compass direction.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1996
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Geographical patterns in the initial orientation of homing pigeons in upstate New York
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The navigation system of homing pigeons was studied to determine its variations in the pigeons' first orientation at distinct locations follow a geographical pattern and if pigeons behave differently to the same experimentalmanipulations at different locations. The results showed that homing pigeons employ different sensory systems or physical information distinctly at areas ofdifferent clusters, showing redundancy in their navigational system.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1992
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