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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Avian Navigation: Pigeon Homing as a Paradigm
  name:
    name part: Wallraff, Hans G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 229 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Observation Data Used to Investigate Pigeon Homing -- Basic Features of Pigeon Homing -- Potential Input Signals Exploitable for Home-Finding -- The Role of the Sun -- The Role of the Geomagnetic Field -- The Role of the Chemical Atmosphere -- The Role of the Visual Landscape -- The Neural Bases of Pigeon Homing -- Homing in Other Birds -- Research History: Blind Alleys and an Unexpected Passage -- Overall Synthesis and Perspective.
  note: by Hans G. Wallraff.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  classification: QL750-795
  classification: 591.5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540264323
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b137573
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204175847.0
    record identifier: 978-3-540-26432-3