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Homing by Path Integration

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Avian Navigation

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The paper presents experimental evidence for homing by path integration in a bird. Using a mammalian model case, the essentials of a cybernetical theory of this type of navigation are developed. As a consequence of its application to the extant data on geese, the necessary information about the translatory component of the animal’s movement along its path appears to be provided by the visual system, viz. the translatory component of the visual flow, whereas the rotatory information must (also) have non-visual sources, e.g. the semicircular canals or the magnetic field.

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Mittelstaedt, H., Mittelstaedt, ML. (1982). Homing by Path Integration. In: Papi, F., Wallraff, H.G. (eds) Avian Navigation. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68616-0_29

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