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Previous experiments showed that pigeons allowed to smell olfactory cues at a 'false' release site, and subsequently transported to and released from another unfamiliar locality, oriented according to the home direction at the false site but eventually homed despite their wrong initial orientation. In the above 'site simulation' experiments, data collection was restricted to the initial bearings and...
To investigate the ability of homing pigeons to determine the home direction at the release site before take off, we recorded the oriented movement of 17 birds at the point at which they left a circular arena. We subsequently observed the pigeons' vanishing bearings. The comparison between the orientation of each bird while leaving the arena and at its vanishing point showed that pigeons are generally...
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