Navigation and Cue Interplay
Whatever cues animals make use of during navigation, impressive attempts have been made over the past decades to look inside the very process of animal navigation. Actually, this is not a process but a complex of processes, with any specific group of anim
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Orientation and Navigation in Vertebrates
Andrii Rozhok
Orientation and Navigation in Vertebrates
Andrii Rozhok Zoology Department Faculty of Biology Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev 03022 Glushkova St. 2 Kiev, Ukraine [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-540-78718-1
e-ISBN 978-3-540-78719-8
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Contents
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Orientation and Navigation Cues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1
Magnetoreception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Earth’s Magnetic Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 Models of Magnetoreception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.3 Differences Between Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Magnetoreception in Different Groups of Vertebrates. . . . . . Celestial Cues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sensitivity to Polarized Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olfactory Cues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4.1 Fishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4.2 Turtles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Mechanisms of Navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.1 Navigation on the Individual Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.2 Group Navigation: The “Many Wrongs Principle” . . .
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