Hippocampus and route fidelity in homing pigeons (data from Gagliardo et al. 2020)

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2020-09-29
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Wikelski M, Gagliardo A, Bingman VP. 2020. Hippocampus and route fidelity in homing pigeons (data from Gagliardo et al. 2020). Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3/1
Abstract
The avian hippocampal formation (HF) is thought to regulate map-like memory representations of visual landmarks/landscape features and has more recently been suggested to be similarly important for the perceptual integration of landmarks/landscapes. Aspects of spatial memory and perception likely combine to support the now well-documented ability of homing pigeons to learn to retrace the same route when homing from familiar locations, leading to the prediction that damage to the HF would result in a diminished ability to repeatedly fly a similar route home. HF-lesioned homing pigeons were repeatedly released from three sites to assess the importance of the hippocampus as pigeons gradually learn a familiar route home guided by familiar landmark and landscape features. As expected, control pigeons displayed increasing fidelity to a familiar route home, and by inference, successful perceptual and memory processing of familiar landmarks/landscape features. By contrast, the impoverished route fidelity of the HF-lesioned pigeons indicated an impaired sensitivity to the same landmark/landscape features.
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animal movement,animal tracking,Columba livia,GPS logger,homing pigeon,navigation,route fidelity
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@misc{001/1_6v5c77t3/1,
  title = {Hippocampus and route fidelity in homing pigeons (data from Gagliardo et al. 2020)},
  author = {Wikelski, M and Gagliardo, A and Bingman, VP},
  year = {2020},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3/1},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3/1},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
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