Columbidae - Physiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Evidence-based orthopaedics or 'superstition in the pigeon'.

26 Aug 2009 Pigeon behavioural conditioning methods are similar to the processes that orthopaedic surgeons use to evaluate new surgical procedures. Alternatively, evidence-based orthopaedics is a tool for surgeons to evaluate procedures in a systematic, ... Read more...

Reassessing the importance of granivorous pigeons as massive, long-distance seed dispersers.

30 Jul 2009 Long-distance dispersal (LDD) of plants remains as a little-understood, key ecological process. We present evidence indicating that granivorous pigeons may disperse large amounts of viable seeds when they die with seeds in their crops at long ... Read more...

Olfactory navigation in homing pigeons: the last challenge.

29 Jun 2009 The olfactory navigation hypothesis of pigeon homing was recently challenged by the discovery in the upper beak of putative magnetoreceptors innervated by the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve. To assess whether the nature of the cues used ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Columbidae - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Behavioural ecology: Winged warnings. 29 Sep 2009
• Evidence-based orthopaedics or 'superstition in the pigeon'. 26 Aug 2009
• Reassessing the importance of granivorous pigeons as massive, long-distance seed dispersers. 30 Jul 2009
• Olfactory navigation in homing pigeons: the last challenge. 29 Jun 2009
• EEG responses to visual landmarks in flying pigeons. 23 Jun 2009
• Do release-site biases reflect response to the Earth's magnetic field during position determination by homing pigeons? 23 Jun 2009
• Cholinergic mechanisms of the medial preoptic areas of the hypothalamus in the control of thermoregulation and the states of sleep and waking in pigeons. 9 Jun 2009
• Hippocampal-dependent familiar area map supports corrective re-orientation following navigational error during pigeon homing: a GPS-tracking study. 6 Jun 2009
• Towards the neurobiology of large-scale spatial cognition (Commentary on Gagliardo et al.). 6 Jun 2009
• Dietary incorporation of feedstuffs naturally high in organic selenium for racing pigeons (Columba livia): effects on plasma antioxidant markers after a standardised simulation of a flying effort. 30 May 2009
• First trial rewards promote 1-trial learning and prolonged memory in pigeon and baboon. 24 May 2009
• Mechanics of bird flight: the power curve of a pigeon by C. J. Pennycuick. 29 Apr 2009
• Pigeon (Columba livia) encoding of a goal location: the relative importance of shape geometry and slope information. 29 Apr 2009
• Animal navigation: a wake-up call for homing. 26 Apr 2009
• When one hemisphere takes control: metacontrol in pigeons (Columba livia). 21 Apr 2009
• Natural split-brain? Lateralized memory for task contingencies in pigeons. 16 Apr 2009
• Ascending and descending mechanisms of visual lateralization in pigeons. 10 Apr 2009
• Activational rather than navigational effects of odors on homing of young pigeons. 7 Apr 2009
• Viability selection on prey morphology by a generalist predator. 30 Mar 2009
• Rotational object discrimination by pigeons. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Columbidae'

Definition: Family in the order COLUMBIFORMES, comprised of pigeons or doves. They are BIRDS with short legs, stout bodies, small heads, and slender bills. Some sources call the smaller species doves and the larger pigeons, but the names are interchangeable.

Descriptor UI: D010856

Alternative terms: Columbidae; Pigeons; Pigeon; Doves; Dove; Columba livia; Rock Pigeons; Pigeon, Rock; Pigeons, Rock; Rock Pigeon; Rock Doves; Dove, Rock; Doves, Rock; Rock Dove; Domestic Pigeons; Domestic Pigeon; Pigeon, Domestic; Pigeons, Domestic; Feral Pigeons; Feral Pigeon; Pigeon, Feral; Pigeons, Feral;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; embryology; genetics; growth & development; immunology; injuries; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; physiology; surgery; urine; virology;

Tree Number: B01.150.900.248.165.150;

History Note: 2005 (1968)