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Homing strategies of pigeons investigated by clock shift and flight path reconstruction

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze del Comportamento Animale e dell'Uomo dell'Università, I-56126, Pisa

    F. Papi & P. Ioalè

  2. Centro di Studio per la Faunistica ed Ecologia Tropicali del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, I-50125, Firenze

    P. Dall'Antonia & S. Benvenuti

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Papi, F., Ioalè, P., Dall'Antonia, P. et al. Homing strategies of pigeons investigated by clock shift and flight path reconstruction. Naturwissenschaften 78, 370–373 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01131613

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