Homing Behavior
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Changes in habitat specificity of species at their climatic range boundaries.

29 Sep 2009 Species are thought to have more restricted niches towards their range boundaries, although this has rarely been quantified systematically. We analysed transect data for 41 butterfly species along climatic gradients within Britain and show that 71% ... Read more...

Changes in transcript abundance relating to colony collapse disorder in honey bees (Apis mellifera).

22 Aug 2009 Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a mysterious disappearance of honey bees that has beset beekeepers in the United States since late 2006. Pathogens and other environmental stresses, including pesticides, have been linked to CCD, but a causal ... Read more...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Homing Behavior'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Changes in habitat specificity of species at their climatic range boundaries. 29 Sep 2009
• Changes in transcript abundance relating to colony collapse disorder in honey bees (Apis mellifera). 22 Aug 2009
• Duetting--a mechanism to strengthen pair bonds in a dispersed pair-living primate (Lepilemur edwardsi)? 30 Jul 2009
• Olfactory navigation in homing pigeons: the last challenge. 29 Jun 2009
• Olfaction in petrels: from homing to self-odor avoidance. 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
• Between-population variation in homeward orientation behaviour in two riparian wolf spiders. 2 May 2009
• The distribution of brown recluse spiders in the southeastern quadrant of the United States in relation to loxoscelism diagnoses. 29 Apr 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
• Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest specialist bird species. 30 Mar 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
• Sex-specific timing of mate searching and territory prospecting in the nightingale: nocturnal life of females. 2 Mar 2009
• Female aggression predicts mode of paternity acquisition in a social lizard. 2 Mar 2009
• Primate home range and GRIN2A, a receptor gene involved in neuronal plasticity: implications for the evolution of spatial memory. 9 Feb 2009

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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)