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The orientation of homing pigeons (Columba livia f.d.) with and without navigational experience in a two-dimensional environment

Homing pigeons are known for their excellent homing ability, and their brains seem to be functionally adapted to homing. It is known that pigeons with navigational experience show a larger hippocampus and also a more lateralised brain than pigeons without navigational experience. So we hypothesized...

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Autores principales: Mehlhorn, Julia, Rehkaemper, Gerd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29176875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188483