This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A modification of the deflector-loft technique first outlined by Baldaccini et al. (1975) is presented in which experienced homing pigeons ...

We know that homing pigeons can find their way back to their lofts over hundreds of miles of unfamiliar terrain. What we don't know is how they do it. David Pogue explores competing theories on how ...

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This study compares the orientation of untreated pigeons and pigeons subjected to olfactory deprivation at two lofts near Pisa, Italy, at a loft at Ithaca, New York, USA, and at a loft at Frankfurt ...

Chicago pigeon racing fans won’t see their birds come home to roost as fast as they hoped. An ordinance to let breeders of homing pigeons keep them in lofts in Chicago was held in committee Monday.

Any minute … any minute now, Herb Cartmell’s racing pigeons should swoop in from the southwest, over the roofline of his Woodinville home, round and round the ...

This news release is available in German. Homing pigeons fly off from an unknown place in unfamiliar territory and still manage to find their way home. Their ability to find their way home has always ...

It is a fascinating phenomenon that homing pigeons always find their way home. Researchers have now carried out experiments demonstrating that pigeons have a spatial map and thus possess cognitive ...