Not just passengers: pigeons, Columba livia, can learn homing routes while flying with a more experienced conspecific.

For animals that travel in groups, the directional choices of conspecifics are potentially a rich source of information for spatial learning. In this study, we investigate how the opportunity to follow a locally experienced demonstrator affects route learning by pigeons over repeated homing flights....

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Main Authors: Pettit, B, Flack, A, Freeman, R, Guilford, T, Biro, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013