SUN COMPASS ORIENTATION OF PIGEONS UPON DISPLACEMENT NORTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
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- 1 August 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 127 (1) , 154-158
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1539351
Abstract
1. Three homing pigeons, directionally trained in a semi-automatically operating apparatus at Durham, N. C. (36° 00' N; 78° 56' W), were displaced to Barrow, Alaska (71° 10' N; 150° 41' W), around the summer solstice of 1962. 2. At "night" the birds allowed dichotomously for a clockwise and a counter-clockwise movement of the sun. This is the first indication that individuals may follow the "bee pattern" as well as the "Talitrus pattern."This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- SUN COMPASS ORIENTATION OF PIGEONS UPON EQUATORIAL AND TRANS-EQUATORIAL DISPLACEMENTThe Biological Bulletin, 1963