Data from: Importance of the hippocampus for the learning of route fidelity in homing pigeons
When using this dataset, please cite the original article.
Gagliardo A, Pollonara E, Casini G, Rossino M, Wikelski M, Bingman V. 2020. Importance of the hippocampus for the learning of route fidelity in homing pigeons. Biol Lett. 16(7):20200095. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2020.0095 |
Additionally, please cite the Movebank data package:
Wikelski M, Gagliardo A, Bingman VP (2020) Data from: Importance of the hippocampus for the learning of route fidelity in homing pigeons. Movebank Data Repository. doi:10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3
| Package Identifier | doi:10.5441/001/1.6v5c77t3 |
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| 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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| Keywords | animal movement, animal tracking, Columba livia, GPS logger, homing pigeon, navigation, route fidelity, | ||
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