The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration

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Bernd Heinrich. The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration

Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration

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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Homing

CRANES COMING HOME

BEELINING

GETTING TO A GOOD PLACE

BY THE SUN, STARS, AND MAGNETIC COMPASS

SMELLING THEIR WAY HOME

PICKING THE SPOT

Home-making and Maintaining

ARCHITECTURES OF HOME

HOME-MAKING IN SURINAME

HOME CRASHERS

CHARLOTTE II: A HOME WITHIN A HOME

THE COMMUNAL HOME

Homing Implications

THE IN AND OUT OF BOUNDARIES

Postscript

OF TREES, ROCKS, A BEAR, AND A HOME

ON HOME GROUND

FIRE, HEARTH, AND HOME

HOMING TO THE HERD

EPILOGUE

FURTHER READING. Introduction. Albatrosses

Loons

Cranes Coming Home. Sandhill Cranes

Human-Guided Migration of Cranes

Beelining. American Frontier Lore of Bees

Homing Orientation by Honeybees

Desert Ants

Getting to a Good Place. General Reference

Monarch Butterfly Migration

Monarch Butterfly Overwintering

Other Lepidoptera

Desert Locusts

Dragonfly Migration

Eels

Dung Beetles

By the Sun, Stars, and Magnetic Compass. General Works on Migration

Human Spatial Orientation

Manx Shearwaters

Bar-tailed Godwit

Pigeons

Winter Homes

Bird Celestial Orientation

Bird Magnetic Orientation

Bird Sun Compass Orientation

Genetic Control of Migratory Directions

Integrating Orienting Signals

Sea Turtles

Smelling Their Way Home. Scent Orienting by Insects

Mice Homing

Salmon Scent Orientation in Homing

Procellariiform Birds During Foraging

Leach’s Petrel Homing and Olfaction

Human Imprinting on Scent

Picking the Spot. Communication and Homing by Bees

Swarm Temperature Regulation

Bird Home Territories

Bird Nest Sites

Architectures of Home. Bird Nests

Beavers

Insects

Home Crashers. Myrmecophiles

Swallow Bugs

Hawk Nest Greens

The Communal Home. Bird Construction Behavior

Sociable Weavers and Sociable Roosting

Monk Parakeets

Mole Rats

Social Bees

Bumblebee Foraging Specialists

Desert Mammals

The In and Out of Boundaries

Of Trees, Rocks, a Bear, and a Home

Fire, Hearth, and Home

Human Genetics and Evolution

Homing to the Herd. General

Rocky Mountain Locust

Desert Locust

Pigeons

Psychology

Sensory Stimulation for Nesting in Doves

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

BOOKS BY BERND HEINRICH

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A pair of mallards, and then a pair of pintails, arrived in the evening, and the ducks swam next to each other near the cranes at the edge of the pond, where some open water had reappeared during the day. The cranes ignored them and again walked in their stately manner back and forth across the ice of the pond, and now they pecked in the low vegetation being exposed along the edges. They were by now finding overwintered cranberries exposed by the melting snow.

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