The Sun Azimuth Compass: One Factor in the Orientation of Homing Pigeons
- 18 March 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 131 (3403), 826-828
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.131.3403.826
Abstract
In accordance with the theory of the sun azimuth compass (1), displaced homing pigeons are misled in a predictable way if their "internal clock" has been reset by exposure to a time-shifted sequence of day-night cycles.Keywords
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