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The magnetic compass of domestic chickens

In a recent paper, we showed that domestic chickens can be trained to search for a social stimulus in specific magnetic directions. Chickens can hardly fly and have only small home ranges, hence their having a functional magnetic compass may seem rather surprising. Yet considering the natural habita...

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Autores principales: Denzau, Susanne, Nießner, Christine, Rogers, Lesley J, Wiltschko, Wolfgang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24753787
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cib.27096

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