Data from: Right hemisphere advantage in the development of route fidelity in homing pigeons

Citation
Pollonara E, Guilford T, Rossi M, Bingman VP, Gagliardo A. 2017. Data from: Right hemisphere advantage in the development of route fidelity in homing pigeons. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.73h2s043
Abstract
Several laboratory studies have revealed functional hemispheric lateralization in birds performing visual tasks. However, the role of functional brain asymmetries in spatial behaviour in natural settings is still poorly investigated. We studied monocularly occluded homing pigeons, Columba livia, to investigate potential differences in the hemispheric control of navigational performance. We GPS-tracked monocularly occluded and control binocular homing pigeons during seven group training releases and a final solitary release from each of two sites. The pigeons were then given one last release from each site after a phase shift of the light-dark cycle under binocular conditions, to distinguish compass-based orientation from landmark-based pilotage. Overall, pigeons homing with the left eye/right hemisphere (RH) displayed a greater fidelity to the familiar space previously experienced than pigeons homing with the right eye/left hemisphere (LH). Another difference between the two monocular groups is that LH pigeons were more likely than RH pigeons to fly with other pigeons during the group training releases. The data support the hypothesis that the left eye/right hemisphere plays a more substantial role as pigeons develop fidelity to certain routes to home from familiar release sites, an enhanced fidelity that may be supported by superior memory for familiar landmarks.
Keywords
Columba livia,animal navigation,animal tracking,Columba livia,GPS logger,GPS tracking,homing pigeon,lateralization,learning,visual landmarks,visual system
Taxa
Taxon
Columba livia
Common Pigeon, Rock Dove, Rock Pigeon
Sensors
Sensor
GPS
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BibTex
@misc{001/1_73h2s043,
  title = {Data from: Right hemisphere advantage in the development of route fidelity in homing pigeons},
  author = {Pollonara, E and Guilford, T and Rossi, M and Bingman, VP and Gagliardo, A},
  year = {2017},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.73h2s043},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.73h2s043},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
RIS
TY  - DATA
ID  - doi:10.5441/001/1.73h2s043
T1  - Data from: Right hemisphere advantage in the development of route fidelity in homing pigeons
AU  - Pollonara, Enrica
AU  - Guilford, Tim
AU  - Rossi, Marta
AU  - Bingman, Verner P.
AU  - Gagliardo, Anna
Y1  - 2017/08/01
KW  - Columba livia
KW  - animal movement
KW  - animal navigation
KW  - animal tracking
KW  - Columba livia
KW  - GPS logger
KW  - GPS tracking
KW  - homing pigeon
KW  - lateralization
KW  - learning
KW  - visual landmarks
KW  - visual system
KW  - Columba livia
PB  - Movebank data repository
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.73h2s043
DO  - doi:10.5441/001/1.73h2s043
ER  -
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