Animal navigation is the ability of many animals to find their way accurately without maps or instruments. Birds such as the Arctic tern, insects such...
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something like sonar, judging by their navigational abilities. Echolocation is active sonar, using sounds made by the animal itself. Ranging is achieved by measuring...
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Allothetic (redirect from Allocentric navigation)
trajectory from one place to another. It can be used as a navigational strategy among animals to aid in their survival. It can also be a source of information...
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Dead reckoning (category Navigation)
describe the processes by which animals update their estimates of position or heading, is path integration. Advances in navigational aids that give accurate information...
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2008.0755. PMC 2679912. PMID 19324648. Lockley, Ronald M. (1967). Animal Navigation. Pan Books. p. 136. Heyers, D.; Manns, M. (2007). Iwaniuk, Andrew...
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The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the...
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bat (Chiroptera) Animal migration Animal navigation Bird feet and legs Feather Joint Kinesis (biology) Microswimmer Movement of Animals (book) Role of skin...
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way in which a rectangular page is oriented for normal viewing In Animal navigation, turning the body to a desired heading, e.g. in the correct direction...
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Olfactory navigation is a hypothesis that proposes the usage of the sense of smell by pigeons, in particular the mail pigeon, in navigation and homing...
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Donald Griffin (category Animal cognition writers)
at various universities who conducted seminal research in animal behavior, animal navigation, acoustic orientation and sensory biophysics. In 1938, while...
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Magnetoreception (section In animals)
mammals). The sense is mainly used for orientation and navigation, but it may help some animals to form regional maps. Experiments on migratory birds provide...
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Procellariiformes (section Navigation)
The Welsh naturalist Ronald Lockley carried out early research into animal navigation with the Manx shearwaters that nested on the island of Skokholm. In...
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In ecology, a feeding frenzy is a type of animal group activity that occurs when predators are overwhelmed by the amount of prey available. The term is...
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Edward A.; Couzin, Iain D.; Dell, Anthony I.; Biro, Dora. Collective animal navigation and migratory culture: from theoretical models to empirical evidence...
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Gordon Sand by Raymond Siever [de] The Honey Bee by James L. Gould Animal Navigation by Talbot H. Waterman Sleep by J. Allan Hobson From Quarks to the...
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Books for Young People (IBBY) honour Animal navigation Children's literature portal Wilson, Staci Layne (2007). Animal Movies Guide. Running Free Press....
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Fish migration (category Animal migration)
critical in the trout's success in an anadromous lifestyle. Animal navigation – Ability of many animals to find their way accurately without maps or instruments...
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left or right (or East or West). In the Morris water navigation task, on the other hand, the animal needs to decide continually where to go. Another reason...
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An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers)...
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nocturnal wildlife, having negative impacts on plant and animal physiology. It can confuse animal navigation, alter competitive interactions, change predator-prey...
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Animal Behaviour is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1953 as The British Journal of Animal Behaviour, before obtaining its...
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deformity. Upon hatching, animals such as turtles have innate navigational skills, including compass and beacon methods of navigation, to reach safety. For...
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Inuit navigation techniques are those navigation skills used for thousands of years by the Inuit, a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples who...
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British Columbia) Salmonidae Animal navigation Environmental impact of reservoirs June hogs Natal homing Olfactory navigation Pre-spawn mortality in coho...
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about the motion of biological cells, sensory processes in vision, animal navigation, light energy harvesting in photosynthesis, and learning in neural...
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Cognition and Navigation Group, Animal Navigation Group, General Aviation Navigation Group, History of Navigation Group, Professional Marine Navigation Group...
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book influenced Charles Darwin's thinking on animal navigation, leading him to propose that humans and animals possess an innate ability for dead reckoning...
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James L. Gould (category Animal cognition writers)
that made serious contributions to the ethological understanding of animal navigation and sexual selection. During his long career at Princeton, Gould has...
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museum between 1977 and 1995. Frisch studied aspects of animal behaviour, including animal navigation, in the Carniolan honey bee[citation needed] (Apis mellifera...
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River Kennet (redirect from Kennet Navigation)
reaches have been made navigable as the Kennet Navigation, which – together with the Avon Navigation, the Kennet and Avon Canal and the Thames – links...
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