The transition from wakefulness to sleep is marked by pronounced changes in brain activity.
The brain rhythms that characterize the two main types of mammalian sleep, slow‐wave …

Intensive artificial selection over thousands of years has produced hundreds of varieties of
domestic pigeon. As Charles Darwin observed, the morphological differences among …

Chickens, as well as other animals, have the ability to change their behavior (behavioral
plasticity) and physiology (physiological plasticity) based on the costs and benefits to fit their …

The homing pigeon was selectively bred from the domestic pigeon for a homing ability over
long distances, a very fascinating but complex behavioral trait. Here, we generate a total of …

Animals have the ability to navigate to a desired location by making use of information about
environmental landmarks and their own movements. While decades of neuroscience …

Olfactory and visual sensory mechanisms seem to play a critical role in migratory orientation
and navigation. How these two mechanisms are functionally linked with other migratory …

The neural substrate subserving magnetoreception and magnetic orientation in mammals is
largely unknown. Previous experiments have demonstrated that the processing of magnetic …

Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items
deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to …

Integrating developments from psychology, ethology and neuroscience, this is an
undergraduate introduction to cognitive processes across species. The authors merge …

Neurogenesis in the adult brain appears to be phylogenetically conserved across the animal
kingdom. In pigeons and other adult non-oscine birds, immature neurons are observed in …