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Homing Pigeons Only Navigate in Air with Intact Environmental Odours: A Test of the Olfactory Activation Hypothesis with GPS Data Loggers

A large body of evidence has shown that anosmic pigeons are impaired in their navigation. However, the role of odours in navigation is still subject to debate. While according to the olfactory navigation hypothesis homing pigeons possess a navigational map based on the distribution of environmental...

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Autores principales: Gagliardo, Anna, Ioalè, Paolo, Filannino, Caterina, Wikelski, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21857925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022385

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