Homing Behavior - Physiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Duetting--a mechanism to strengthen pair bonds in a dispersed pair-living primate (Lepilemur edwardsi)?

30 Jul 2009 Duetting is defined as an interactively organized pair display in which one pair partner coordinates its vocalizations in time with those of the other. It is widespread among tropical birds and cohesive pair-living primates, in which it is suggested ... Read more...

EEG responses to visual landmarks in flying pigeons.

23 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: GPS analysis of flight trajectories of pigeons can reveal that topographic features influence their flight paths. Recording electrical brain activity that reflects attentional processing could indicate objects of interest that do not ... Read more...

Which portion of the natural panorama is used for view-based navigation in the Australian desert ant?

27 Apr 2009 Ants that forage in visually rich environments often develop idiosyncratic routes between their nest and a profitable foraging ground. Such route knowledge is underpinned by an ability to use visual landmarks for guidance and place recognition. Here ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Homing Behavior - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Duetting--a mechanism to strengthen pair bonds in a dispersed pair-living primate (Lepilemur edwardsi)? 30 Jul 2009
• EEG responses to visual landmarks in flying pigeons. 23 Jun 2009
• Which portion of the natural panorama is used for view-based navigation in the Australian desert ant? 27 Apr 2009
• Animal navigation: a wake-up call for homing. 26 Apr 2009
• Stable isotopes reveal individual variation in migration strategies and habitat preferences in a suite of seabirds during the nonbreeding period. 16 Apr 2009
• Activational rather than navigational effects of odors on homing of young pigeons. 7 Apr 2009
• Local and global navigational coordinate systems in desert ants. 30 Mar 2009
• The learning and maintenance of local vectors in desert ant navigation. 30 Mar 2009
• Home range and parasite diversity in mammals. 30 Mar 2009
• Primate home range and GRIN2A, a receptor gene involved in neuronal plasticity: implications for the evolution of spatial memory. 9 Feb 2009
• Successful city dwellers: a comparative study of the ecological characteristics of urban birds in the Western Palearctic. 11 Jan 2009
• The influence of experience in orientation: GPS tracking of homing pigeons released over the sea after directional training. 30 Dec 2008
• Homing in the wolf spider Lycosa tarantula (Araneae, Lycosidae): the role of active locomotion and visual landmarks. 22 Dec 2008
• Coral reef fish smell leaves to find island homes. 20 Dec 2008
• Point of decision: when do pigeons decide to head home? 26 Nov 2008
• Insect navigation: visual panoramas and the sky compass. 23 Nov 2008
• Roadless wilderness area determines forest elephant movements in the Congo Basin. 26 Oct 2008
• Navigational experience affects hippocampus size in homing pigeons. 21 Oct 2008
• Functional role theories of representation and content explanation: with a case study from spatial cognition. 21 Sep 2008
• Selforganizing memory: active learning of landmarks used for navigation. 13 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Homing Behavior'

Definition: Instinctual patterns of activity related to a specific area including ability of certain animals to return to a given place when displaced from it, often over great distances using navigational clues such as those used in migration (ANIMAL MIGRATION).

Descriptor UI: D006702

Alternative terms: Homing Behavior; Behavior, Homing; Behaviors, Homing; Homing Behaviors; Home Range; Home Ranges; Range, Home; Ranges, Home;

Related Mesh Headings: Animal Migration;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.145.113.646;

History Note: 98;(68)