Ask a Question
or
Create a Poll
  1. Home /
  2. Questions /
  3. Science
  4. / Biology
  5. / Animals & Wildlife
  6. / Birds
  7. / Flight And Navigation

by wickedwillie on September 27th, 2004

wickedwillie

Question

Help answer this question below.

How come pigeons can always find their way "home"?

  • Like
  • Report
Share:
Other

Answers. 1 helpful answer below.

  • by wickedwillie on October 4th, 2004

    wickedwillie

    After nearly a century of dedicated but frustrating research, no one knows how pigeons home, and all attempts to explain their navigational ability in terms of known senses and physical forces have so far proved unsuccessful. The problem of navigation remains essentially unsolved.
    However, the following article does mention infrasound, sense of smell, magnetic sensitivity and nonlocal quantum phenomena, but none of those methods have been proven absolutely convincing: http://www.transaction.net/science/seven/home.html

    • Like
    • Report

    No comments. Post one | Permalink

Want to attach an image to your answer? Click here.

Did this answer your question? If not, then ask a new question or create a poll.

More Questions. Additional questions in this category.

You're reading How come pigeons can always find their way "home"? - which can also be phrased in the following ways:

  • How do homeing pigeons find their way home?

Follow us on Facebook!

Related Ads

Related Questions

Professionally Researched

ANSWERBAG BUZZ

If pigeons can t find their home
Can pigeons find their way home
How do pigeons always find their way home
How do pigeons find their ways
How come pigeons knows their way home

Answerbag

a Demand Media company