Natures wonders: homing pigeons (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Wednesday, November 06, 2013, 00:28 (4034 days ago) @ David Turell

Smell their way home!:-"Experiments over the past 40 years have shown that homing pigeons get disoriented when their sense of smell is impaired or when they don't have access to natural winds at their home site. But many researchers were not convinced that wind-borne odors could provide the map pigeons need to navigate. Now, Hans Wallraff of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, has shown that the atmosphere does contain the necessary information to help pigeons find their way home."-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131105103536.htm


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