Об инерциальной навигации птиц

Abstract

Role of the vestibular apparatus in birds orientation at homing and in round Kramer cages with eleciromagnetic counters was investigated when studying inertial navigation of birds. It was established that, if there are ground and sky orientation points at homing», the birds, probably, manage without any navigation abilities of the vestibular apparatus. Possibility is not excluded that birds use them with the absence o visible orientation points. Such a suggestion might have been made on the basis of the results of the experiments with the round cages. But as the experiments were carried out with a small number of individuals, we have no right to draw final conclusions.