Research Catalog

Title

Animal migration, navigation, and homing : symposium held at the University of Tübingen, August 17-20, 1977 / edited by K. Schmidt-Koenig and W.T. Keeton.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1978.

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Additional Authors

• Schmidt-Koenig, Klaus, 1930-2009.
• Keeton, William T.
• Universität Tübingen.
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Description

x, 462 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Proceedings in life sciences

Uniform Title

Proceedings in life sciences.

Subject

• Animal homing > Congresses
• Animal navigation > Congresses
• Animal migration > Congresses
• Motor ability
• Animal behavior
• Animal orientation > Congresses
• Motor Activity
• Behavior, Animal
• Motor Skills
• Motor ability
• Animal orientation
• Animal behavior
• Animal homing
• Animal migration
• Animal navigation

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Symposium was sponsored by the University of Tübingen, celebrating its 500th anniversary, and held as Internationale Wissenschaftliche Fachkonferenz der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Second-order statistical analysis of directions / E. Batschelet -- Sensory mechanisms for animal orientation -- can any new ones be discovered? / M.L. Kreithen -- Sensory mechanisms related to homing in pigeons / J.D. Delius and J. Emmerton -- A role for the avian pecten oculi in orientation to the sun? / J.D. Pettigrew -- Do pigeons use their eyes for navigation? : a new technique! / K.-L. Köhler -- Pigeon homing : cues detected during the outward journey influence initial orientation / F. Papi, P. Ioalé, V. Fiaschi, S. Benvenuti, and N.E. Baldaccini -- Investigation of pigeon homing by means of "deflector cages" / N.E. Baldaccini, S. Benvenuti, V. Fiaschi, P. Ioalé, and F. Papi -- An apparent lunar rhythm in the day-to-day variations in initial bearings of homing pigeons / T. Larkin and W.T. Keeton -- Further experiments on the olfactory hypothesis of pigeon homing / R. Hartwick, J. Kiepenheuer, and K. Schmidt-Koenig -- Local anesthesia of the olfactory membrane and homing in pigeons / K. Schmidt-Koenig and J.B. Phillips -- Sensitivity of the homing pigeon to an earth-strength magnetic field / M.A. Bookman -- Inversion of the magnetic field during transport : its influence on the homing behavior of pigeons / J. Kiepenheuer -- Anomalies in the earth's magnetic field increase the scatter of pigeons' vanishing bearings / Ch. Walcott -- Effect of outward journey in an altered magnetic field on the orientation of young homing pigeons / R. Wiltschko, W. Wiltschko, and W.T. Keeton -- Homing pigeons' flight over and under low stratus / G. Wagner -- Preferred compass directions in initial orientation of homing pigeons / H.G. Wallraff -- Further investigations of the effect of "flight during clock shift" on pigeon orientation / W. Edrich and W.T. Keeton -- Accurate measurements of the initial track (radius 1500 m) of homing pigeons / B. Elsner -- Echolocation of extended surfaces / D.R. Griffin and E.R. Buchler -- Radar observations of behavior of migrating birds in response to sounds broadcast from the ground / R.P. Larkin -- Importance of the daytime flights of nocturnal migrants : redetermined migration following displacement / S.A. Gauthreaux Jr. -- Field studies of the orientation cue hierarchy of nocturnal songbird migrants / K.P. Able -- Orientation of transatlantic migrants / T.C. Williams and J.M. Williams -- Effects of Alpine topography and winds on migrating birds / B. Bruderer -- Angle sense in painted quails : a parameter of geodetic orientation / F.W. Merkel -- Concept of endogenous control of migration in warblers / P. Berthold -- Orientation strategies used by free-flying bird migrants : a radar tracking study / S.T. Emlen and N.J. Demong -- Environmental variables and the nightly emigration ratio of the robin (Erithacus rubecola) on the Island Hjelm, Denmark / J. Rabøl and K. Hansen -- Further analysis of the magnetic compass of migratory birds / W. Wiltschko -- Orientation responses of ring-billed gull chicks: a re-evaluation / W.E. Southern -- Primitive models of magnetoreception / M.J.M. Leask -- Directional and discriminatory responses of salamanders to weak magnetic fields / J.B. Phillips and K. Adler -- Orientation amphibians by linearly polarized light / D.H. Taylor and J.S. Auburn -- Experimental evidence of geomagnetic orientation in elasmobranch fishes / Ad. J. Kalmijn -- The magnetic behavior of mud bacteria / Ad. J. Kalmijn and R.P. Blakemore -- Olfactory imprinting in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) / A.D. Hasler and A.T. Scholz -- Energetics of migration in American shad / W.C. Leggett and C.L. Trump -- Horizontal and vertical swimming of eels during the spawning migration at the edge of the continental shelf / F.-W. Tesch -- Some experiments on navigation in the harbour seal, Phoca vitulina / H. James and R.W. Dykes -- Homing in wild myomorph rodents: current problems / J. Bovet -- Orientation mechanisms of marine turtles / N. Mrosovsky -- Nighttime orientation of hatchling green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in open ocean / L.C. Ireland, J.A. Frick, and D.B. Wingate -- Mass migration of spiny lobster Panulirus argus (Crustacea: Palinuridae): synopsis and orientation / W. Herrnkind and P. Kanciruk -- Migration and homing of marine invertebrates: a potpourri of strategies / J.T. Enright -- Orientation based on directivity, a directional parameter of the animal's radiant environment / F.J. Verheijen.

ISBN

• 038708777X
• 9780387087771
• 354008777X
• 9783540087779

LCCN

78008656

OCLC

• ocm03893310
• 3893310
• SCSB-9699004

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library