Animal navigation: a wake-up call for homing.
Many animals seem to know their location even when far from home. Evidence variously implicates odors or magnetic fields. The most consistent olfactory results, however, may not mean what we think.
Gould
James L
JL
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1003, USA. gould@princeton.edu
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D010856:Columbidae / Q000502:physiology*; D005426:Flight, Animal; D006702:Homing Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D008280:Magnetics; D009812:Odorants; D009949:Orientation; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*