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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| Natura: | Journal article |
| Lingua: | English |
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2013
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