Magnetic alignment enhances homing efficiency of hunting dogs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027014%3A_____%2F20%3AN0000059" target="_blank" >RIV/00027014:_____/20:N0000059 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41210/20:81778 RIV/60460709:41320/20:81778
Result on the web
<a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/55080" target="_blank" >https://elifesciences.org/articles/55080</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55080" target="_blank" >10.7554/eLife.55080</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Magnetic alignment enhances homing efficiency of hunting dogs
Original language description
Despite anecdotal reports of the astonishing homing abilities in dogs, their homing strategies are not fully understood. We equipped 27 hunting dogs with GPS collars and action cams, let them freely roam in forested areas, and analyzed components of homing in over 600 trials. When returning to the owner (homewards), dogs either followed their outbound track (‘tracking’) or used a novel route (‘scouting’). The inbound track during scouting started mostly with a short (about 20 m) run along the north-south geomagnetic axis, irrespective of the actual direction homewards. Performing such a ‘compass run’ significantly increased homing efficiency. We propose that this run is instrumental for bringing the mental map into register with the magnetic compass and to establish the heading of the animal.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA15-21840S" target="_blank" >GA15-21840S: Magnetosensitivity in dogs and other animals: Magnetic alignment, cognitive maps and selective sensory attention</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
eLife
ISSN
2050-084X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
e55080
UT code for WoS article
000541884600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85086626330