Pigeons literally rely on gut feeling for their homing ability, study finds - Findings could ‘fundamentally change’ how we ...

It’s this sense that allows birds like pigeons to navigate hundreds of miles home—even in the dark. Still, there’s some ...

A study details a surprising new way into how pigeons find their way home. Some animals including birds orient themselves ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising navigation system in pigeons: iron-filled immune cells in the liver that may act like ...

How animals navigate by Earth's magnetic field is hotly debated. New research in pigeons points to iron-laden liver immune ...

How pigeons fly hundreds of kilometers and still find their way home has long fascinated people. Now, researchers say a surprising answer may be hidden, not in the brain or eyes of birds, but in the ...

A research team in Germany has published new data on how pigeons use magnetic fields as a navigation method when visibility is limited. A key part of the long-sought answer could lie in an unexpected ...

There's something magnetic about a group of people looking in the same direction—others will follow their gazes to see what has caught their attention. But is the same true for animals like pigeons?

Social animals have to make decisions that affect not just themselves, but everyone in the group. For example, when embarking on a journey together, individuals must agree on the route--a difficult ...

B.F. Skinner is a psychologist best known for the Skinner Box, a kind of sensory-deprivation device which limits the creature inside it to only one form of stimulus at a time. Using one such box, he ...

Relatively impulsive behavior is characterized by a number of different factors, such as an inability to withhold a response or an inability to delay gratification (Evenden 1999). Impulsiveness is a ...