An approach toward an analysis of the pattern recognition involved in the stellar orientation of birds
Year: 1972
Type: article
Abstract: A conditioning method was used to investigate the orientational responses of ducks as affected by manipulations of the stellar patterns in a planetarium. Under simulated natural skies it was possible to train a bird to a particular direction successively under all positions of the rotating sphere at a constant latitude. The responses were independent of the phase relationships between local time, season, and appearance of the sky provided the bird had been trained under the particular sector of the sphere some time before.
Author: Hans G. Wallraff
Institutions: Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1599110192