Psychology 3221F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: European Beewolf, Celestial Navigation, Beewolf
17 Feb 2018
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Large number of animals undertake dramatic long-distance navigation and migrations. Caribou: migration has large social component (do it in groups, and there are members of the group who have done the migratory journey lots of times before so they rely on memory from previous trips) Birds used the stars and other stuff like that to know directions: also use celestial cues e. g. starts, moon etc, also use geomagnetic fields, olfaction and memory (e. g. experienced birds) Breed in alaska (may-june) develop in summer and early in fall go from alaska to new zealand. Fly non-stop and takes them 6-9 days (over the ocean) 8,000-11,000 km. Beaches contain hundreds of these philanthropist nests. While she was gone, he moved the pine cones (shift them: she remembered where the nest was in relation to the cones (the land mark) So if they removed the landmark, she wouldn"t know where her nest is: she only remembers in relation to landmarks around the nest.
