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The process of learning sun compass orientation in young homing pigeons

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Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; all calculations were carried out at the Hochschulrechenzentrum of the Universität Frankfurt a.M. We gratefully acknowledge the help of A. Doss-Scholz, W. Mann and U. Kotzur, and we thank W.T. Keeton for critically reading an early draft of this manuscript.

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Wiltschko, R., Wiltschko, W. The process of learning sun compass orientation in young homing pigeons. Naturwissenschaften 67, 512–514 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01047636

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