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Animal Homing (Hardcover)
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Animal Homing (Hardcover)
Series: Chapman & Hall Animal Behaviour Series
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Homing phenomena must be considered an important aspect of animal
behaviour on account of their frequent occurrence, their survival
value, and the variety of the mechanisms involved. Many species
regularly rely on their ability to home or reach other familiar
sites, but how they manage to do this is often uncertain. In many
cases the goal is attained in the absence of any sensory contact,
by mechanisms of indirect orientation whose complexity and
sophistication have for a long time challenged the skill and
patience of many researchers. A series of problems of increasing
difficulty have to be overcome; researchers have to discover the
nature of orienting cues, the sensory windows involved, the role of
inherited and acquired information, and, eventually, how the
central mechanisms process information and control motory
responses. Naturally, this book emphasizes targets achieved rather
than areas unexplored and mysteries unsolved. Even so, the reader
will quickly realize that our knowledge of phenomena and mechanisms
has progressed to different degrees in different animal groups,
ranging from the mere description of homing behaviour to a
satisfactory insight into some underlying mechanisms. In the last
few dacades there have been promising developments in the study of
animal homing, since new approaches have been tried out, and new
species and groups have been investigated. Despite this, homing
phenomena have not recently been the object of exhaustive reviews
and there is a tendency for them to be neglected in general
treatises on animal behaviour.
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