Data from: GPS-profiling of retrograde navigational impairments associated with hippocampal lesion in homing pigeons

Gagliardo A, Colombo S, Pollonara E, Casini G, Rossino MG, Wikelski M, Bingman VP. 2021. Data from: GPS-profiling of retrograde navigational impairments associated with hippocampal lesion in homing pigeons. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.vr6d4p42

Abstract

The avian hippocampal formation (HF) is homologous to the mammalian hippocampus and plays a central role in the control of spatial cognition. In homing pigeons, HF supports navigation by familiar landmarks and landscape features. However, what has remained relatively unexplored is the importance of HF for the retention of previously acquired spatial information. For example, to date, no systematic GPS-tracking studies on the retention of HF-dependent navigational memory in homing pigeons have been performed. Therefore, the current study was designed to compare the pre- and post-surgical navigational performance of sham-lesioned control and HF-lesioned pigeons tracked from three different sites located in different directions with respect to home. The pre- and post-surgical comparison of the pigeons’ flight paths near the release sites and before reaching the area surrounding the home loft (4 km radius from the loft) revealed that the control and HF-lesioned pigeons displayed similarly successful retention. By contrast, the HF-lesioned pigeons displayed dramatically and consistently impaired retention in navigating to their home loft during the terminal phase of the homing flight near home, i.e., where navigation is supported by memory for landmark and landscape features. The data demonstrate that HF lesions lead to a dramatic loss of pre-surgically acquired landmark and landscape navigational information while sparing those mechanisms associated with navigation from locations distant from home.

Keywords

Columba livia,animal tracking,Columba livia,hippocampal formation,homing pigeon,GPS logger,memory retention,navigation

Taxa

Taxon

Columba livia

Common Pigeon, Rock Dove, Rock Pigeon

Sensors

Sensor

GPS

DOIs of related Publications

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113408

URI

https://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.1323

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@misc{001/1_vr6d4p42,
  title = {Data from: GPS-profiling of retrograde navigational impairments associated with hippocampal lesion in homing pigeons},
  author = {Gagliardo, A and Colombo, S and Pollonara, E and Casini, G and Rossino, MG and Wikelski, M and Bingman, VP},
  year = {2021},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.vr6d4p42},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.vr6d4p42},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}

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AU  - Gagliardo, Anna
AU  - Colombo, Silvia
AU  - Pollonara, Enrica
AU  - Casini, Giovanni
AU  - Rossino, Maria Grazia
AU  - Wikelski, Martin
AU  - Bingman, Verner P.
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KW  - animal movement
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