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Science 18 March 1960:
Vol. 131. no. 3403, pp. 826 - 828
DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3403.826
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The Sun Azimuth Compass: One Factor in the Orientation of Homing Pigeons

Klaus Schmidt-Koenig 1

1 Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, and Department of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

In accordance with the theory of the sun azimuth compass (1), displaced homing pigeons are misled in a predictable way if their "internal clock" has been reset by exposure to a time-shifted sequence of day-night cycles.


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