Homing behavior: decisions, dominance and democracy.
When flying in pairs, pigeons with different preferred paths back to the loft often agree on a joint route, and in doing so get home faster than either would have done on its own.
Gould
James L
JL
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. gould@Princeton.edu
D000818:Animals; D010856:Columbidae / Q000502:physiology*; D003657:Decision Making; D005426:Flight, Animal; D006702:Homing Behavior; D012919:Social Behavior; D012930:Social Dominance