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How homing pigeons keep navigation simple when winging their way home together
- May 26, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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When it comes to flocking together, homing pigeons use a simple strategy to find better ways home, according to a recent report. The study, published in the journal eLife, suggests that homing pigeons use simple route averaging when navigating as a group. eLife's editors say the work addresses an important question, and provides compelling evidence based on multiple models and data on how homing pigeons can generate social routes from solitary ones.
Originally published at Phys.org