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Stafford, Richard. "Crossing fitness valleys during the evolution of limpet homing behaviour." Open Life Sciences 5, no. 2 (April 1, 2010): 274–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11535-010-0001-9.

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AbstractEvolution is often considered a gradual hill-climbing process, slowly increasing the fitness of organisms. Here I investigate evolution of homing behaviour in simulated intertidal limpets. While the simulation of homing is only a possible mechanism by which homing may have evolved, the process allows an investigation of how evolution may occur over different fitness landscapes. With some fitness landscapes, in order to evolve path integration as a homing mechanism, a temporary reduction in an organism’s fitness was required — since high developmental costs occurred before successful homing strategies evolved. Simple hill-climbing algorithms, therefore, only rarely resulted in the evolution of a functional homing behaviour. The inclusion of trail-following greatly increases the frequency of success of evolution of a path integration strategy. Initially an emergent homing behaviour is formed combining path integration with trail-following. This also demonstrates evolution through exaptation, since in the simulation, the original role of trail-following is likely to be unrelated to homing. Analysis of the fitness landscapes of homing in the presence of trail-following behaviour shows a high variability of fitness, which results in the formation of ‘stepping-stones’ of high fitness across fitness valleys. By using these stepping-stones, simple hill-climbing algorithms can reach the global maximum fitness value.

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Griffiths, Shane P. "Homing behaviour of intertidal rockpool fishes in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia." Australian Journal of Zoology 51, no. 4 (2003): 387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo02049.

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The homing ability of 20 temperate Australian intertidal rockpool fishes was investigated between September 1999 and August 2001 by relocating tagged fish to other rockpools at distances of <5 m and 10–20 m. Eleven species showed homing ability, which may be due to topographical cues learned during high-tide feeding excursions within the intertidal zone. Displacement distance and time at liberty did not influence the proportion of fish homing, indicating that homing tendency is strong for most species examined. After ~120 days there is a dramatic decrease in the number of fish homing, but fish are capable of homing up to 214 days. The proportion of fish homing was independent of size, except for Lepidoblennius haplodactylus, which showed a reduced tendency to home with increasing size. The fate or whereabouts of fish that never returned to rockpools could not be determined. Possible explanations include relocation to rockpools near release points or increased susceptibility to predation due to tagging.

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Portugal, Steven J., Rhianna L. Ricketts, Jackie Chappell, Craig R. White, Emily L. Shepard, and Dora Biro. "Boldness traits, not dominance, predict exploratory flight range and homing behaviour in homing pigeons." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372, no. 1727 (July 3, 2017): 20160234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0234.

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Group living has been proposed to yield benefits that enhance fitness above the level that would be achieved through living as solitary individuals. Dominance hierarchies occur commonly in these social assemblages, and result, by definition, in resources not being evenly distributed between group members. Determinants of rank within a dominance hierarchy can be associated with morphological characteristics, previous experience of the individual, or personality traits such as exploration tendencies. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether greater exploration and positive responses to novel objects in homing pigeons ( Columba livia ) measured under laboratory conditions were associated with (i) greater initial exploration of the local area around the home loft during spontaneous exploration flights (SEF), (ii) faster and more efficient homing flights when released from further afield, and (iii) whether the traits of greater exploration and more positive responses to novel objects were more likely to be exhibited by the more dominant individuals within the group. There was no relationship between laboratory-based novel object exploration and position within the dominance hierarchy. Pigeons that were neophobic under laboratory conditions did not explore the local area during SEF opportunities. When released from sites further from home, neophobic pigeons took longer routes to home compared to those birds that had not exhibited neophobic traits under laboratory conditions, and had spontaneously explored to a greater extent. The lack of exploration in the neophobic birds is likely to have resulted in the increased costs of homing following release: unfamiliarity with the landscape likely led to the greater distances travelled and less efficient routes taken. Birds that demonstrated a lack of neophobia were not the dominant individuals inside the loft, and thus would have less access to resources such as food and potentially mates. However, a lack of neophobia makes the subordinate position possible, because subordinate birds that incur high travel costs would become calorie restricted and lose condition. Our results address emerging questions linking individual variation in behaviour with energetics and fitness consequences. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Physiological determinants of social behaviour in animals’.

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Benvenuti, S., and A. Gagliardo. "Homing behaviour of pigeons subjected to unilateral zinc sulphate treatment of their olfactory mucosa." Journal of Experimental Biology 199, no. 11 (November 1, 1996): 2531–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.199.11.2531.

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Pigeons were made anosmic by unilateral treatment of their olfactory mucosa with a zinc sulphate solution and by plugging the contralateral nostril. In a series of releases at unfamiliar sites, 5579 km from the home loft, the experimental birds' homing behaviour was compared with that of two control groups: unmanipulated control birds, and birds subjected to unilateral zinc sulphate treatment and equipped with an ipsilateral nasal plug. The experimental pigeons exhibited homing behaviour  in terms of both homeward initial orientation and homing performance  significantly poorer than that of both unmanipulated and treated control pigeons. In addition, the homing behaviour of the treated controls turned out to be only slightly, and not significantly, poorer than that of the unmanipulated birds. The results show that the impaired homing capabilities of the zinc-sulphate-treated birds are due to the lack of navigational information and not to non-specific brain damage caused by the experimental treatment.

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Grasso, Donato Antonio, Alberto Ugolini, and Francesco Moli. "Homing Behaviour in Polyergus rufescens Latr. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)." Ethology 102, no. 1 (April 26, 2010): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1996.tb01107.x.

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Halvorsen, Morten, and Ole B. Stabell. "Homing behaviour of displaced stream-dwelling brown trout." Animal Behaviour 39, no. 6 (June 1990): 1089–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0003-3472(05)80781-x.

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White, Gemma E., and Culum Brown. "Site fidelity and homing behaviour in intertidal fishes." Marine Biology 160, no. 6 (February 7, 2013): 1365–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-013-2188-6.

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Chelazzi, Guido. "Eco-ethological aspects of homing behaviour in molluscs." Ethology Ecology & Evolution 2, no. 1 (May 1990): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08927014.1990.9525491.

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Tani, Soichiro, and Takatoshi Ueno. "Site fidelity and long-distance homing by males of solitary parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae)." Canadian Entomologist 145, no. 3 (January 23, 2013): 333–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2012.108.

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AbstractSite fidelity and long-distance homing are known to occur in nesting female Hymenoptera. We report here on the site fidelity and homing ability in males of five species of scoliid wasps (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae), a group whose females do not make nests but are ectoparasitoids of scarabaeid beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). The males of these wasp species patrol female emergence areas searching for mates. Based on mark-recapture data, we found that between 40% and 100% of marked males left the release area and travelled 50–800 m from the point of capture returning to their original patrol area. We discuss the adaptive significance of site fidelity and homing behaviour in Scoliidae, and propose hypotheses about the evolution of the homing behaviour in Hymenoptera. The homing ability of these primitive Aculeata may represent a case of convergent evolution with other Hymenoptera in which males patrol emergence areas in search of females. Additionally, this homing ability may serve as a preadaptation for the evolution of nest-provisioning and nesting habits in Hymenoptera.

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Ward, A. J. W., R. James, A. D. M. Wilson, and M. M. Webster. "Site fidelity and localised homing behaviour in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)." Behaviour 150, no. 14 (2013): 1689–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-00003115.

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The ability of animals to disperse towards their original home range following displacement has been demonstrated in a number of species. However, little is known about the homing ability of three-spine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus), an important model species in behavioural ecology. In addition, few studies have examined the role of social facilitation in relation to homing behaviour in fishes. We examined homing behaviour of sticklebacks displaced over distances of between 80 m and 160 m in land-drains with directional water flow. Fish were translocated from their original capture site, tagged and then released either in groups or solitarily. We performed recapture transects either one or two days later. Data provided by recaptured sticklebacks show that the fish dispersed in the direction of their original capture site. Although fish translocated downstream typically moved further than those translocated upstream, both dispersed towards their original capture site. There was no difference between fish released solitarily or in groups in their homing ability and indeed there was little evidence that fish translocated in groups remained together following their release. The homing ability of the fish was demonstrated by the finding that up to 80% of fish returned to their home ranges within two days of release over a distance equivalent to approximately 5000 body lengths of these small fish.

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Wilson, S., D. A. Tonge, and N. Holder. "Homing behaviour of regenerating axons in the amphibian limb." Development 106, no. 4 (August 1, 1989): 707–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.106.4.707.

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Following peripheral nerve deviation in the limbs of urodele amphibians axons regrow distally toward their previous target muscles (Holder et al. 1984; Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 222, 477–489). This study describes analysis of this axon regeneration over time following deviation of the forearm flexor nerve in Triturus cristatus and the extensor cranialis nerve in the axolotl. Using horseradish peroxidase (HRP) axonal tracing, electrophysiology and electron microscopy, we describe the sequence of events leading to reestablishment of functional innervation. HRP fills reveal axons leaving the deviated nerve via a number of possible routes and they invariably grow distally. Many axons take a path close to that of the original nerve but others fasciculate forming parallel paths. Electrophysiology and electron microscopy show that axons in the deviated region of the nerve degenerate extensively compared with cut, but undeviated, controls. The results are discussed in terms of the possible axon-growth-promoting mechanisms that result in directed growth.

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Harris, William A. "Homing behaviour of axons in the embryonic vertebrate brain." Nature 320, no. 6059 (March 1986): 266–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/320266a0.

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Knope, M. L., K. A. Tice, and D. C. Rypkema. "Site fidelity and homing behaviour of intertidal sculpins revisited." Journal of Fish Biology 90, no. 1 (October 24, 2016): 341–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13182.

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Hale, Roderick J., and Winston J. Bailey. "Homing behaviour of juvenile Australian raspy crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae)." Physiological Entomology 29, no. 5 (December 2004): 426–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0307-6962.2004.00412.x.

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Vannini, Marco, and Stefano Cannicci. "Homing behaviour and possible cognitive maps in crustacean decapods." Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 193, no. 1-2 (November 1995): 67–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-0981(95)00111-5.

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Thyssen, L., R. Triay-Portella, A. Santana del Pino, and J. J. Castro. "Homing behaviour of rock pool blennyParablennius parvicornis(Pisces: Blenniidae)." Journal of Natural History 48, no. 19-20 (February 19, 2014): 1169–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2013.859314.

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Marnane, M. J. "Site fidelity and homing behaviour in coral reef cardinalfishes." Journal of Fish Biology 57, no. 6 (December 2000): 1590–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2000.tb02234.x.

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SHEN, JUN-XIAN, ZHI-MIN XU, and ELMER HANKES. "Direct homing behaviour in the antTetramorium caespitum(Formicidae, Myrmicinae)." Animal Behaviour 55, no. 6 (June 1998): 1443–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1997.0718.

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Hartney, K. B. "Site fidelity and homing behaviour of some kelp-bed fishes." Journal of Fish Biology 49, no. 6 (December 1996): 1062–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1996.tb01778.x.

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Van Riet, Ivan, Karin Vanderkerken, Catherine de Greef, and Ben Van Camp. "Homing behaviour of the malignant cell clone in multiple myeloma." Medical Oncology 15, no. 3 (September 1998): 154–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02821934.

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Belangerz, G., and M. A. Rodriguez. "Homing behaviour of stream-dwelling brook charr following experimental displacement." Journal of Fish Biology 59, no. 4 (October 2001): 987–1001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2001.tb00166.x.

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Kolm, N. "Causes of homing behaviour in a group living reef fish." Journal of Fish Biology 63 (December 2003): 234–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2003.0216t.x.

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Murakami, Hisashi, Takenori Tomaru, and Yukio-Pegio Gunji. "Interaction between path integration and visual orientation during the homing run of fiddler crabs." Royal Society Open Science 4, no. 9 (September 2017): 170954. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170954.

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Foraging fiddler crabs form a strict spatial relationship between their current positions and burrows, allowing them to run directly back to their burrows when startled even without visual contacts. Path integration (PI), the underlying mechanism, is a universal navigation strategy through which animals continuously integrate directions and distances of their movements. However, we report that fiddler crabs also use visual orientation during homing runs using burrow entrances as cues, with the prioritised mechanism (i.e. PI or visual) determined by the distance (which has a threshold value) between the goal, indicated by PI, and the visual cue. When we imposed homing errors using fake entrances (visual cue) and masking their true burrows (goal of PI), we found that frightened fiddler crabs initially ran towards the true burrow following PI, then altered their behaviour depending on the distance between the fake entrance and masked true burrow: if the distance was large, they kept running until they reached the true burrow, ignoring the visual cue; however, if the distance was small, they altered the homing path and ran until they reached the fake entrance. This suggests that PI and visual mechanism in fiddler crabs are mutually mediated to achieve their homing behaviour.

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Dennis, Todd E., Matt J. Rayner, and Michael M. Walker. "Evidence that pigeons orient to geomagnetic intensity during homing." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274, no. 1614 (February 13, 2007): 1153–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.3768.

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The influence of the Earth's magnetic field on locomotory orientation has been studied in many taxa but is best understood for homing pigeons ( Columba livia ). Effects of experimentally induced and naturally occurring perturbations in the geomagnetic field suggest that pigeons are sensitive to changes in geomagnetic parameters. However, whether pigeons use the Earth's magnetic field for position determination remains unknown. Here we report an apparent orientation to the intensity gradient of the geomagnetic field observed in pigeons homing from sites in and around a magnetic anomaly. From flight trajectories recorded by GPS-based tracking devices, we noted that many pigeons released at unfamiliar sites initially flew, in some cases up to several kilometres, in directions parallel and/or perpendicular to the bearing of the local intensity field. This behaviour occurred irrespective of the homeward direction and significantly more often than what was expected by random chance. Our study describes a novel behaviour which provides strong evidence that pigeons when homing detect and respond to spatial variation in the Earth's magnetic field—information of potential use for navigation.

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Landriault, L. J., M. N. Hall, J. Hamr, and F. F. Mallory. "Long-range Homing by an Adult Female Black Bear, Ursus americanus." Canadian Field-Naturalist 120, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v120i1.246.

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An adult female Black Bear was repeatedly captured and relocated as a result of nuisance behaviour. The relocation distances ranged from 40 km to 389 km (mean = 152 km, n = 6). She homed successfully from all relocations, even when accompanied by young-of-the-year. Differential homing ability among bears may depend on first homing from a short relocation, facilitating subsequent responses to longer distance relocations.

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Pettit, Benjamin, Andrea Perna, Dora Biro, and David J. T. Sumpter. "Interaction rules underlying group decisions in homing pigeons." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 10, no. 89 (December 6, 2013): 20130529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0529.

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Travelling in groups gives animals opportunities to share route information by following cues from each other's movement. The outcome of group navigation will depend on how individuals respond to each other within a flock, school, swarm or herd. Despite the abundance of modelling studies, only recently have researchers developed techniques to determine the interaction rules among real animals. Here, we use high-resolution GPS (global positioning system) tracking to study these interactions in pairs of pigeons flying home from a familiar site. Momentary changes in velocity indicate alignment with the neighbour's direction, as well as attraction or avoidance depending on distance. Responses were stronger when the neighbour was in front. From the flocking behaviour, we develop a model to predict features of group navigation. Specifically, we show that the interactions between pigeons stabilize a side-by-side configuration, promoting bidirectional information transfer and reducing the risk of separation. However, if one bird gets in front it will lead directional choices. Our model further predicts, and observations confirm, that a faster bird (as measured from solo flights) will fly slightly in front and thus dominate the choice of homing route. Our results explain how group decisions emerge from individual differences in homing flight behaviour.

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Benediktová, Kateřina, Jana Adámková, Michaela Masilkova, Luděk Bartoš, Lucie Kleprlíková, Jan Svoboda, Miloslav Zikmund, and Vlastimil Hart. "Spying the dog: Wearable action camera as a tool to understand dog’s behaviour during homing (Carnivora: Canidae)." Lynx new series 53, no. 1 (2023): 257–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/lynx.2022.019.

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Automated data collection methods, such as using GPS collars and animal-borne cameras, represent an efficient way of data collection and may be instrumental in the research of animal orientation, including magnetoreception. In this study, we designed a wearable dog action camera (DAC) system for hunting dogs consisting of a Garmin Virb Elite camera housed in the stainless mount attached to the dog harness. We evaluated the DAC’s reliability and potential to capture various behaviour, and we tested the effect of the DAC on the dog’s activity and well-being. We found no significant impact of the DAC on the dogs’ average speed. The tested system was reliable, efficient and safe for dogs. We recorded various behaviours connected to orientation, such as olfactory behaviour and head scanning, the latter described for the first time in domestic dogs. Furthermore, we observed other important behaviours such as hunting, exploration and comfort behaviour. Using wearable action cameras for studying domestic and free-roaming tame animals can bring new opportunities for future behavioural and sensory ecology research.

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Born, Erik W., Mario Acquarone, Lars Ø. Knutsen, and Leif Toudal. "Homing Behaviour in an Atlantic Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus)." Aquatic Mammals 31, no. 1 (January 2, 2005): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1578/am.31.1.2005.23.

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Perera, Theresa Burt de, and Tim Guilford. "The Orientational Consequences of Flocking Behaviour in Homing Pigeons, Columba livia." Ethology 105, no. 1 (January 1999): 13–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1999.tb01217.x.

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Benvenuti, S., P. Ioalé, A. Gagliardo, and F. Bonadonna. "Effects of zinc sulphate-induced anosmia on homing behaviour of pigeons." Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology 103, no. 3 (November 1992): 519–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0300-9629(92)90281-t.

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Flack, Andrea, Tim Guilford, and Dora Biro. "Learning multiple routes in homing pigeons." Biology Letters 10, no. 4 (April 2014): 20140119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0119.

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The aerial lifestyle of central-place foraging birds allows wide-ranging movements, raising fundamental questions about their remarkable navigation and memory systems. For example, we know that pigeons ( Columba livia ), long-standing models for avian navigation, rely on individually distinct routes when homing from familiar sites. But it remains unknown how they cope with the task of learning several routes in parallel. Here, we examined how learning multiple routes influences homing in pigeons. We subjected groups of pigeons to different training protocols, defined by the sequence in which they were repeatedly released from three different sites, either sequentially, in rotation or randomly. We observed that pigeons from all groups successfully developed and applied memories of the different release sites (RSs), irrespective of the training protocol, and that learning several routes in parallel did not impair their capacity to quickly improve their homing efficiency over multiple releases. Our data also indicated that they coped with increasing RS uncertainty by adjusting both their initial behaviour upon release and subsequent homing efficiency. The results of our study broaden our understanding of avian route following and open new possibilities for studying learning and memory in free-flying animals.

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Braithwaite, V. A., and T. C. Guilford. "Recognition of Familiar Visual Landmarks in Homing Pigeons." Journal of Navigation 46, no. 3 (September 1993): 371–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300011814.

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It is now well established that homing pigeons (Columba livia) use a variety of mechanisms and cues to help them find their way home. It is far more difficult to determine the relative importance attached to such mechanisms and cues by pigeons during homing. As a step towards this quantitative stage in our understanding of homing behaviour we consider if cues contribute significantly to homing speed. In particular we attempt to assess the role of visual landmarks. Using pigeons released from familiar release sites, we demonstrate that birds home faster if they can view their surroundings from inside a Perspex box for 5 minutes prior to being released, compared to birds denied this view. Pigeons released from unfamiliar sites, however, do not show a similar improvement. We suggest that seeing familiar visual landmarks before release allows pigeons to become more certain of their current location with respect to home. Simply viewing the release site is not sufficient to produce a faster homing speed; the pigeons must be able to recognize that the release site is familiar.

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Parker, S. J. "Homing Ability and Home Range of Yellow-Phase American Eels in a Tidally Dominated Estuary." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 75, no. 1 (February 1995): 127–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400015241.

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Yellow-phase American eels, Anguilla rostrata, were displaced 10–17 km between tidal fresh water and salinity-stratified water and followed to determine the degree of home site fidelity, swiftness of homing and whether environmental factors affect orientation or homing behaviour. Twenty-one eels were tracked continuously (eight eels displaced up the estuary, eight down the estuary and five controls) in the Penobscot Estuary, Maine, USA for 4–80 h each, while recording position every 20 min. Nine of the 16 displaced eels (56%) returned to their capture site either during the track or shortly afterwards. Three of the remaining seven eels made substantial progress towards their capture site within the time observed. Eels homed with equal frequency whether displaced up or down the estuary in an average of 220 h ±87 (SE). After release, no eel moved farther away from its capture site. The eels were active mostly at night but used only the appropriate tidal currents rather than directed swimming to move about their home range and to home. Control tracks provided a home-range estimate in this habitat of 6.7 ±1.6 km of estuary or 325 ±64 ha. Lunar phase or position of the moon did not appear to influence either homing behaviour or activity patterns. This study shows that orientation and homing to a specific site in eels occurs relatively quickly and with no initial errors in orientation.

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IOALE', PAOLO, and DANTE GUIDARINI. "Methods for Producing Disturbances in Pigeon Homing Behaviour by Oscillating Magnetic Fields." Journal of Experimental Biology 116, no. 1 (May 1, 1985): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.116.1.109.

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Experiments were performed with homing pigeons treated before release with oscillating magnetic fields produced by small Helmholtz coils placed around the neck and on the head of the pigeon or by larger Helmholtz coils surrounding the cage of the birds. In both types of treatment, which both used a single frequency of about 0.14 Hz, the pigeons' initial orientation was strongly affected when the oscillation of the artificial magnetic field was square-shaped, whereas a triangular or sine-shaped variation had no effect.

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MITAMURA, HIROMICHI. "Studies on homing behaviour and site fidelity in aquatic animals using biotelemetry." NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI 81, no. 4 (2015): 651–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2331/suisan.81.651.

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Pereira, L. H. G., F. Foresti, and C. Oliveira. "Genetic structure of the migratory catfishPseudoplatystoma corruscans(Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) suggests homing behaviour." Ecology of Freshwater Fish 18, no. 2 (June 2009): 215–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0633.2008.00338.x.

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Santina, Paolo Della, and Ernest Naylor. "Endogenous rhythms in the homing behaviour of the limpet Patella vulgata Linnaeus." Journal of Molluscan Studies 60, no. 1 (1994): 87–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/60.1.87.

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Gray, D. R., and E. Naylor. "Foraging and homing behaviour of the limpet, Patella vulgata: a geographical comparison." Journal of Molluscan Studies 62, no. 1 (February 1996): 121–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mollus/62.1.121.

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Tomiyama, Kiyonori. "Homing behaviour of the giant African snail,Achatina fulica (Ferussac) (Gastropoda; Pulmonata)." Journal of Ethology 10, no. 2 (June 1992): 139–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02350118.

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Martinho, Antone, Dora Biro, Tim Guilford, Anna Gagliardo, and Alex Kacelnik. "Asymmetric visual input and route recapitulation in homing pigeons." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, no. 1816 (October 7, 2015): 20151957. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1957.

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Pigeons ( Columba livia ) display reliable homing behaviour, but their homing routes from familiar release points are individually idiosyncratic and tightly recapitulated, suggesting that learning plays a role in route establishment. In light of the fact that routes are learned, and that both ascending and descending visual pathways share visual inputs from each eye asymmetrically to the brain hemispheres, we investigated how information from each eye contributes to route establishment, and how information input is shared between left and right neural systems. Using on-board global positioning system loggers, we tested 12 pigeons' route fidelity when switching from learning a route with one eye to homing with the other, and back, in an A-B-A design. Two groups of birds, trained first with the left or first with the right eye, formed new idiosyncratic routes after switching eyes, but those that flew first with the left eye formed these routes nearer to their original routes. This confirms that vision plays a major role in homing from familiar sites and exposes a behavioural consequence of neuroanatomical asymmetry whose ontogeny is better understood than its functional significance.

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Loale', Paolo. "Effect of Anaesthesia of the Nasal Mucosae on the Homing Behaviour of Pigeons." Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 61, no. 2 (April 26, 2010): 102–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1983.tb01331.x.

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Minakawa, N., and G. F. Kraft. "Homing behaviour of juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) within an off-channel habitat." Ecology of Freshwater Fish 14, no. 2 (June 2005): 197–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0633.2005.00093.x.

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Papi, F., P. Ioalè, G. Casini, V. P. Bingman, and P. Bagnoli. "Investigation of the central mechanisms involved in the homing behaviour of the pigeon." Ethology Ecology & Evolution 2, no. 3 (September 1990): 321–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08927014.1990.9525460.

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Mitamura, Hiromichi, Nobuaki Arai, Wataru Sakamoto, Yasushi Mitsunaga, Hideji Tanaka, Yukinori Mukai, Kenji Nakamura, Masato Sasaki, and Yoshihiro Yoneda. "Role of olfaction and vision in homing behaviour of black rockfish Sebastes inermis." Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 322, no. 2 (September 2005): 123–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2005.02.010.

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Shima, Jeffrey S., Daniel McNaughtan, Shane W. Geange, and Shaun Wilkinson. "Ontogenetic variation in site fidelity and homing behaviour of a temperate reef fish." Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 416-417 (April 2012): 162–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2012.02.020.

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Hodgkinsoi, Sarah, and Nick Tilley. "Travel-to-Crime: Homing in on the Victim." International Review of Victimology 14, no. 3 (September 2007): 281–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026975800701400301.

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Environmental criminology focuses on the intersection in time and place of the offender and victim. Patterns of crime are generally explained in terms of the routine activities of the offender. His or her travel to crime distances are short and crimes are committed within the offender's ‘awareness space’. It has generally been theorised that victims also have short journeys to crime, associated with their routine behaviour. This review, however, suggests that occupancy of ‘unawareness space’, where people are away from familiar surroundings, may confer heightened risk. This is supported in research in the special case of crime and tourism, though other travelling victim patterns have been largely ignored. This paper postulates that crime risk increases at the intersection of offender awareness and victim unawareness spaces. The 2002–3 British Crime Survey provides some suggestive evidence on this. Its analysis reveals that 26.9% of self-reported victimisation occurs more than 15 minutes away from the victim's home. For personal theft crimes over 70% of the victims were outside their immediate locality, suggesting a stronger link between victim mobility and certain types of offence. This finding is discussed in light of the literature reviewed and some implications for crime prevention are considered.

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Mongini, Emanuele, N. Emilio Baldaccini, Luisa Ragionieri, and Dimitri Giunchi. "RELEASE EXPERIMENTS WITH WILD ROCK DOVES (COLUMBA L. LIVIA GM.)." Behaviour 138, no. 8 (2001): 923–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853901753286489.

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AbstractThe homing behaviour of free-living birds has rarely been systematically investigated, and so it is difficult to give a satisfactory comparative picture. Data are here presented on the initial orientation of rock doves displaced inside and outside the area that they daily cross during their foraging flights. Inside the familiar area, the results show marked variability in the directional choices of the released birds, probably related to temporal variability in the location of food patches during the year. Indeed, in autumn, when the doves feed almost exclusively near the colony site, they tend to fly home, but in summer, when food patches are dispersed over a wide area around the colony, this behaviour is not evident. Outside the familiar area, no clear evidence of a homeward directedness is obtained. Two releases inside the familiar area with clock-shifted birds produced ambiguous results and it is difficult to attribute the behaviour of the animals to a change in their motivation to reach home in different times of the day, or to the use of a time-compensated sun compass. On the whole, the presented results point to the difficulties of comparing rock dove behaviour to that of the homing pigeon, and show the importance of considering the influence of ecological and motivational variables in evaluating the orienting performances of wild birds.

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Phillips, J., and S. Borland. "USE OF A SPECIALIZED MAGNETORECEPTION SYSTEM FOR HOMING BY THE EASTERN RED-SPOTTED NEWT NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS." Journal of Experimental Biology 188, no. 1 (March 1, 1994): 275–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.188.1.275.

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Laboratory experiments were carried out to investigate the effects of varying the wavelength of light on the use of an earth-strength magnetic field for shoreward orientation and for the compass component of homing. In the earlier shoreward orientation experiments, newts tested under full-spectrum and short-wavelength (i.e. 400 and 450 nm) light exhibited shoreward magnetic compass orientation. Under long-wavelength (i.e. 550 and 600 nm) light, newts exhibited magnetic compass orientation that was rotated 90 ° counterclockwise to the shoreward direction. This wavelength-dependent shift in magnetic compass orientation was shown to be due to a direct effect of light on the underlying magnetoreception mechanism. In homing experiments, newts tested under full-spectrum and short-wavelength light exhibited homeward magnetic compass orientation. Under long-wavelength light, newts were randomly distributed with respect to the magnetic field. The different effects of long-wavelength light on shoreward orientation and homing confirmed earlier evidence that different magnetoreception systems mediate these two forms of orientation behaviour. The properties of the newt's homing response are consistent with the use of a hybrid magnetoreception system receiving inputs from the light-dependent magnetic compass and from a non-light-dependent intensity (or inclination) detector which, unlike the compass, is sensitive to the polarity of the magnetic field.

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Ling, S. D., Z. L. Cowan, J. Boada, E. B. Flukes, and M. S. Pratchett. "Homing behaviour by destructive crown-of-thorns starfish is triggered by local availability of coral prey." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, no. 1938 (November 4, 2020): 20201341. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1341.

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Corallivorous crown-of-thorns starfishes ( Acanthaster spp.) can decimate coral assemblages on Indo-Pacific coral reefs during population outbreaks. While initial drivers of population irruptions leading to outbreaks remain largely unknown, subsequent dispersal of outbreaks appears coincident with depletion of coral prey. Here, we used in situ time-lapse photography to characterize movement of the Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish ( Acanthaster cf. solaris ) in the northern and southern Great Barrier Reef in 2015, during the fourth recorded population outbreak of the starfish, but prior to widespread coral bleaching. Daily tracking of 58 individuals over a total of 1117 h revealed all starfish to move a minimum of 0.52 m, with around half of all tracked starfish showing negligible daily displacement (less than 1 m day −1 ), ranging up to a maximum of 19 m day −1 . Movement was primarily nocturnal and daily displacement varied spatially with variation in local availability of Acropora spp., which is the preferred coral prey. Two distinct behavioural modes emerged: (i) homing movement, whereby tracked paths (as tested against a random-walk-model) involved short displacement distances following distinct ‘outward' movement to Acropora prey (typically displaying ‘feeding scars') and ‘homebound' movement to nearby shelter; versus (ii) roaming movement, whereby individuals showed directional movement beyond initial tracking positions without return. Logistic modelling revealed more than half of all tracked starfish demonstrated homing when local abundance (percentage cover) of preferred Acropora coral prey was greater than 33%. Our results reveal facultative homing by Acanthaster with the prey-dependent behavioural switch to roaming forays providing a mechanism explaining localized aggregations and diffusion of these population irruptions as prey is locally depleted.

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Pardanaud, L., and F. Dieterlen-Lievre. "Manipulation of the angiopoietic/hemangiopoietic commitment in the avian embryo." Development 126, no. 4 (February 15, 1999): 617–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.126.4.617.

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The hypothesis that the endothelial and hemopoietic lineages have a common ontogenic origin is currently being revived. We have shown previously by means of quail/chick transplantations that two subsets of the mesoderm give rise to endothelial precursors: a dorsal one, the somite, produces pure angioblasts (angiopoietic potential), while a ventral one, the splanchnopleural mesoderm, gives rise to progenitors with a dual endothelial and hemopoietic potential (hemangiopoietic potential). To investigate the cellular and molecular controls of the angiopoietic/hemangiopoietic potential, we devised an in vivo assay based on the polarized homing of hemopoietic cell precursors to the floor of the aorta detectable in the quail/chick model. In the present work, quail mesoderm was grafted, after various pretreatments, onto the splanchnopleure of a chick host; the homing pattern and nature of graft-derived QH1(+) cells were analyzed thereafter. We report that transient contact with endoderm or ectoderm could change the behavior of cells derived from treated mesoderm, and that the effect of these germ layers could be mimicked by treatment with several growth factors VEGF, bFGF, TGFbeta1, EGF and TGF(α), known to be involved in endothelial commitment and proliferation, and/or hemopoietic processes. The endoderm induced a hemangiopoietic potential in the associated mesoderm. Indeed, the association of somatopleural mesoderm with endoderm promoted the ‘ventral homing’ and the production of hemopoietic cells from mesoderm not normally endowed with this potential. The hemangiopoietic induction by endoderm could be mimicked by VEGF, bFGF and TGFbeta1. In contrast, contact with ectoderm or EGF/TGF(α) treatments totally abrogated the hemangiopoietic capacity of the splanchnopleural mesoderm, which produced pure angioblasts with no ‘ventral homing’ behaviour. We postulate that two gradients, one positive and one negative, modulate the angiopoietic/hemangiopoietic potential of the mesoderm.

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