Hippocampus may help homing pigeons explore
When researchers remove the brain regions, birds fly straighter on early parts of journey home
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FLYING ON AUTOPILOT Like automatons, homing pigeons without hippocampi fly straight toward home early in their journey, a new study finds.
Giuseppe di Lieto