Environmental odours and pigeon homing (data from Gagliardo et al. 2016)

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dc.contributor.authorGagliardo, Anna
dc.contributor.authorPollonara, Enrica
dc.contributor.authorWikelski, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-05T19:19:56Z
dc.date.available2016-07-05T19:19:56Z
dc.date.issued2016-07-05
dc.description.abstractThe role of environmental olfactory information in pigeon navigation has been extensively studied by analysing vanishing bearing distributions and homing performances of homing pigeons subjected to manipulation of their olfactory perception and/or the olfactory information they were exposed to during transportation and at the release site. However, their behaviour during the homing flight remains undocumented. In this experiment we report the analysis of tracks of birds made anosmic at the release site by washing their olfactory mucosa with zinc sulfate. We thus can assess the role of local odours at the release site as well as the role of environmental odours perceived on the way, far from the release site. We observed that pigeons transported and kept at the release site in purified air and made anosmic at the release site were unable to orient towards home and were impaired at homing. By contrast, pigeons allowed to smell environmental odours during transportation and at the release site, although made anosmic prior to release, displayed unimpaired homeward orientation, but nevertheless showed impaired homing performance. These results are consistent with the view that local odour at the release site are critical for determining the direction of displacement (olfactory map) and suggest that pigeons consult the olfactory map also during their homing flight in order to be able to find their way home.
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.5441/001/1.721tr877/1
dc.identifier.urihttps://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.554
dc.relation.ispartofdoi:10.5441/001/1.721tr877
dc.relation.isreferencedbydoi:10.1242/jeb.140889
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.subjectanimal movement
dc.subjectanimal tracking
dc.subjectColumba livia
dc.subjectGSM telemetry
dc.subjecthoming pigeon
dc.subjectnavigation
dc.subjectolfaction
dc.titleEnvironmental odours and pigeon homing (data from Gagliardo et al. 2016)
dc.typeDataset
dspace.entity.typeData package
dwc.ScientificNameColumba livia
mdr.citation.BibTex
@misc{001/1_721tr877/1,
  title = {Environmental odours and pigeon homing (data from Gagliardo et al. 2016)},
  author = {Gagliardo, A and Pollonara, E and Wikelski, M},
  year = {2016},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.721tr877/1},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.721tr877/1},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
mdr.citation.CSE
Gagliardo A, Pollonara E, Wikelski M. 2016. Environmental odours and pigeon homing (data from Gagliardo et al. 2016). Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.721tr877/1
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AU  - Gagliardo, Anna
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AU  - Wikelski, Martin
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KW  - animal movement
KW  - animal tracking
KW  - Columba livia
KW  - GSM telemetry
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KW  - olfaction
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DO  - doi:10.5441/001/1.721tr877/1
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