Animal navigation

Vickers, N. J. (2000). Mechanisms of animal navigation in odor plumes. Biological Bulletin of the Marine BiologicalLaboratory 198,203-212. 

Zimmer-Faust, R. K., C. M. Finelli, N. D. Pentcheff, and D. S. Wethey. Odor plumes and animal navigation in turbulent water flow A field study. Biol. Bull. 188, 111-116 (1995). 

Finelli, C.M., Pentcheff, N.D., Zimmer-Faust, R.K., and Wethey, D.S., Odor transport in turbulent flows constraints on animal navigation, Limnol. Oceanogr., 44, 1056, 1999. 

Long, Michael E. "Secrets of Animal Navigation. National Geographic 179, no. 6. (June 1991). 

David DeLaney from the University of Tennessee s Physics Department suggested that Infinity World would not have a magnetic field, if the cylinder were hollow. This in turn would have extensive effects on navigation, the Van Allen belts, cosmic radiation, animals navigation, auroras, and so on. 

The total is calculated by adding the scores from the three sections of the bridge. The test is repeated 3 times and the measure of the performance of the rat in the test is the mean of the three total scores. Animals are trained to navigate the bridge system for 5 consecutive days prior to receiving any test compound. 

Olfactory navigation to the nesting burrow in Leach s petrel [Oceanodroma leucor-rhoa). Animal Behaviour 22,192-202. 

Avian olfactoiy navigation its empirical foundation and conceptual state. Animal Behaviour 67,189-204. 

Rats who are learning maze navigation will often show correlated firing of neuron pairs in the area of the brain known as the hippocampus, and this firing increases as they learn, as if neurons were making a physical link to represent the animal s orientational maps. The cross-correlation re-emerges at sleep onset, as if the rat s brain, like the brain of the Tetris ox Alpine Rarer player, was repeating in sleep the cerebral code from its daytime experience. The cellular and molecular basis of this phenomenon can now be studied. 

In the natural world, animals may sometimes be able to use beacons to navigate toward a goal. The location of food, water, or an animal s home might be at the base of a tree or near a large rock. On many other occasions, however, important sites may be located in an open, homogeneous field that offers no beacons. Nevertheless, animals are able to use cues only distantly related to the goal site to precisely track its position. The use of multiple cues to define a specific location in space is called piloting. We turn to some mechanisms by which animals may learn to use landmarks to pilot to a precise position. 

Etienne, A. S., Berlie, J., Georgakopoulos, J., and Maurer, R. (1998). Role of dead reckoning in navigation. In S. Healy (ed.), Spatial representation in animals (pp. 54-68). New York Oxford University Press. 

William A. Roberts is Professor of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario. He is author of Principles of animal cognition (McGraw-Hill, 1998). He studies cognitive processes in monkeys, rats, and pigeons, including how these animals process number, keep track of time, and use landmarks for spatial navigation. 

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