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ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2016

Mathematical analysis of the homing flights of pigeons based on GPS tracks.

Ingo Schiffner, Susanne Denzau, Dennis Gehring, Roswitha Wiltschko

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Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Hippocampal LFP Responses during Pigeon Homing Flight in Outdoors.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  3. A reinterpretation of "Homing pigeons' flight over and under low stratus" based on atmospheric propagation modeling of infrasonic navigational cues.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ingo SchiffnerQueensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Building #79, St. Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia. i.schiffner@uq.edu.au.
Susanne DenzauFachbereich Biowissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Max von Laue-Str. 13, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Dennis GehringFachbereich Biowissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Max von Laue-Str. 13, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Roswitha WiltschkoFachbereich Biowissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Max von Laue-Str. 13, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To analyse the effect of magnetic and olfactory deprivation on the homing flight of pigeons, we released birds from a familiar site with either their upper beak or their nostrils anaesthetized. The tracks were analysed by time lag embedding to calculate the short-term correlation dimension, a variable that reflects the degrees of freedom and thus the number of factors involved in a system. We found that higher natural fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field characterized by A

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ColumbidaeFlight, AnimalHoming BehaviorModels, TheoreticalAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsElectromagnetic FieldsOlfaction DisordersOlfactory PerceptionRemote Sensing TechnologySpatial NavigationCorrelation dimensionGPS tracksHoming pigeonsMagnetic navigationOlfactory input

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PMID27766380

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