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Homing pigeons find their way home by smelling the air

Many animals use chemical signals for defense, foraging and mating. However, little is known about the perception of smell by birds. A long-standing question – which we addressed in a new study – is how homing pigeons (or messenger pigeons) can 'smell' their way home... click to read more

Nora Zannoni | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

homing pigeons

volatile organic compounds

chemical cues

bird navigation

olfactory maps

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published on Jun 15, 2021

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