Concerning the Ability of Homing Pigeons to Discriminate Patterns of Polarized Light
- 24 October 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 116 (3017) , 454-456
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.116.3017.454
Abstract
3 homing pigeons quickly learned to respond to discrimination tests involving brightness of light but failed to discriminate between different planes of polarized light. It is concluded that, unlike bees, the factor of light polarization probably has nothing to do with direction-finding in homing pigeons.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- SOME PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES OF BIRD ORIENTATIONProceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 1949
- Sensitivity of the Homing Pigeon to the Magnetic Field of the EarthScience, 1948
- The Sensory Basis of Bird NavigationThe Quarterly Review of Biology, 1944