LEADER 03449nam 22006015 450 001 9910968358803321 005 20260209180835.0 010 $a94-011-1588-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-011-1588-9 035 $a(CKB)3400000000121839 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000922179 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11517892 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000922179 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10849392 035 $a(PQKB)10115489 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-011-1588-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3069244 035 $a(EXLCZ)993400000000121839 100 $a20121227d1992 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAnimal Homing /$fedited by F. Papi 205 $a1st ed. 1992. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d1992. 215 $a1 online resource (XII, 390 p.) 225 1 $aChapman & Hall Animal Behaviour Series 300 $aOriginally published by Chapman & Hall in 1992. 311 08$a0-412-36390-9 311 08$a94-010-4691-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $a1 General aspects -- 2 Invertebrates (excluding Arthropods) -- 3 Arthropods -- 4 Fishes -- 5 Amphibians -- 6 Reptiles -- 7 Birds -- 8 Mammals -- Animal index -- Author index. 330 $aHoming phenomena must be considered an important aspect of animal behaviour on account of their frequent occurrence, their survival value, and the variety of the mechanisms involved. Many species regularly rely on their ability to home or reach other familiar sites, but how they manage to do this is often uncertain. In many cases the goal is attained in the absence of any sensory contact, by mechanisms of indirect orientation whose complexity and sophistication have for a long time challenged the skill and patience of many researchers. A series of problems of increasing difficulty have to be overcome; researchers have to discover the nature of orienting cues, the sensory windows involved, the role of inherited and acquired information, and, eventually, how the central mechanisms process information and control motory responses. Naturally, this book emphasizes targets achieved rather than areas unexplored and mysteries unsolved. Even so, the reader will quickly realize that our knowledge of phenomena and mechanisms has progressed to different degrees in different animal groups, ranging from the mere description of homing behaviour to a satisfactory insight into some underlying mechanisms. In the last few dacades there have been promising developments in the study of animal homing, since new approaches have been tried out, and new species and groups have been investigated. Despite this, homing phenomena have not recently been the object of exhaustive reviews and there is a tendency for them to be neglected in general treatises on animal behaviour. 410 0$aChapman & Hall Animal Behaviour Series 606 $aAnimal migration 606 $aEcology 606 $aAnimal Migration 606 $aEcology 615 0$aAnimal migration. 615 0$aEcology. 615 14$aAnimal Migration. 615 24$aEcology. 676 $a591.7 701 $aPapi$b F$g(Floriano),$f1926-2016.$01892326 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968358803321 996 $aAnimal Homing$94537911 997 $aUNINA