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Pigeon homing: A repetition of the deflector loft experiment

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Pigeons brought up in closed cages deflecting the winds to the left or to the right show, on release, a bias of the mean vanishing directions to the left or right of the mean direction of untreated control birds. The results are in full accord with the findings of Baldaccini et al. (1975).

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  1. Institut für Biologie III, Abteilung für Verhaltensphysiologie, Universität Tübingen, Beim Kupferhammer 8, D-7400, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Jakob Kiepenheuer

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Kiepenheuer, J. Pigeon homing: A repetition of the deflector loft experiment. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 3, 393–395 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00303201

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