Data from: Right hemisphere advantage in the development of route fidelity in homing pigeons
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/10.5441/001/1.73h2s043Abstract
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
DOIs of related Publications
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 -