Objectively identifying landmark use and predicting flight trajectories of the homing pigeon using Gaussian processes.
Pigeons home along idiosyncratic habitual routes from familiar locations. It has been suggested that memorized visual landmarks underpin this route learning. However, the inability to experimentally alter the landscape on large scales has hindered the discovery of the particular features to which bi...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2011
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