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Initial orientation of displaced homing pigeons
Description
This data set has 108 rows and 2 columns. The observations are the vanishing bearings of homing pigeons displaced and released at two unfamiliar locations. The data are pooled with respect to the home direction (home direction set in 360 grades).
Usage
data(pigeons)Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
treatment, a factor with levels: c, control pigeon (unmanipulated); v1, pigeons subjected to bilateral section of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve; on, pigeons subjected to bilateral section of the olfactory nerve
bearing, vanishing bearing of each bird in degrees
References
Gagliardo A., Ioale' P., Savini M., and Wild M. (2008). Navigational abilities of homing pigeons deprived of olfactory or trigeminally mediated magnetic information when young. J. Exp. Biol., 211:2046–2051.