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- Author : J. B. Watson
- Publisher : Forgotten Books
- Release : 2017-10-12
- ISBN : 9780266230113
- Pages : 450 pages
Homing and Related Activities of Birds And the Acquisition of Skill in Archery Vol 7 Classic Reprint
Download or read book Homing and Related Activities of Birds And the Acquisition of Skill in Archery Vol 7 Classic Reprint written by J. B. Watson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Homing and Related Activities of Birds, And, the Acquisition of Skill in Archery, Vol. 7 In 1907, while the senior author was making a study Of the nesting behavior of the noddy and sooty terns at Bird Key, Tortugas, Florida, * the fact was Observed that these birds possess a well-developed homing sense. Only a few experiments were made at that time (see p. But the results were so promising that Dr. Alfred G. Mayer, Director Of the Marine Biological Station Of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, made special arrangements for the continuation Of the work in 1910, 1912, and 1913. Since the homing sea son is only 5 to 6 weeks in length (being limited to the laying and brooding periods), the present summary Of the three years' work is far from being satis factory. Notwithstanding Our failure to work out completely the problems Of homing in the terns, we feel that we have made so many improvements in our technique - in the matter Of caring for the birds on trips, locating them on return, etc., that it is advisable to report both what we have on homing and on the control of homing experiments. Some care has been taken in the pres ent investigation to supplement the 1907 work on the instinctive life Of the terns. This was found to be desirable in view of the fact that in the control Of the experiments on homing it becomes essential to have some accurate data on the ability Of the birds to swim and to remain on the water at night; the length of time the nesting impulse remains strong; the length Of time habits Of reacting to one nest and to one mate are retained, etc. The actual experi mental material On distant orientation will be given in detail, but the Observa tions upon the instincts and habits Of the birds will be presented in a more or less abridged form. On pages 34 and 35 we give the location Of Bird Key, a description of the colony Of terns dwelling there, and the complete setting Of our experimental work. Before presenting our own work we shall give in some detail the general historical setting Of the problem Of homing in vertebrates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Homing and Related Activities of Birds Vol 7 written by J. B. Watson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Homing and Related Activities of Birds, Vol. 7: The Acquisition of Skill in Archery In 1907, while the senior author was making a study Of the nesting behavior of the noddy and sooty terns at Bird Key, Tortugas, Florida, * the fact was Observed that these birds possess a well-developed homing sense. Only a few experiments were made at that time (see p. But the results were so promising that Dr. Alfred G. Mayer, Director of the Marine Biological Station of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, made Special arrangements for the continuation Of the work in 1910, 1912, and 1913. Since the homing Sea son is only 5 to 6 weeks in length (being limited to the laying and brooding periods), the present summary of the three years' work is far from being satis factory. Notwithstanding Our failure to work out completely the problems of homing in the terns, we feel that we have made so many improvements in our technique - in the matter of caring for the birds on trips, locating them on return, etc., that it is advisable to report both what we have on homing and On the control of homing experiments. Some care has been taken in the pres ent investigation to supplement the 1907 work on the instinctive life of the terns. This was found to be desirable in View of the fact that in the control of the experiments on homing it becomes essential to have some accurate data on the ability of the birds to swim and to remain on the water at night; the length of time the nesting impulse remains strong; the length of time habits of reacting to one nest and to one mate are retained, etc. The actual experi mental material On distant orientation will be given in detail, but the observa tions upon the instincts and habits of the birds will be presented in a more or less abridged form. On pages 34 and 35 we give the location of Bird Key, a description of the colony of terns dwelling there, and the complete setting of our experimental work. Before presenting our own work we shall give in some detail the general historical setting of the problem of homing in vertebrates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Homing and Related Activities of Birds And the Acquisition of Skill in Archery written by J. B. Watson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Homing and Related Activities of Birds, And, the Acquisition of Skill in Archery, Vol. 7 The present series of studies on the behavior of birds is a direct outgrowth of an investigation made on the noddy and sooty terns nesting on Bird Key, Tortugas, Florida, by the writer under the auspices of the Marine Biological Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1907 (publication103). The homing instinct is the central topic in all the papers. In the 1907 investigation the fact appeared that terns possess a homing sense, behaving exactly as do homing pigeons when sent away from their nests and young. Such good subjects did the terns appear to be that it was soon decided to make this homing sense the chief object of the Tortugas researches. The topographical situation of Bird Key makes that island especially suitable for carrying out such experiments. In the first place, it is the northern limit of migration of these tropical birds. It becomes possible there to test whether the birds can home in a region never before, in all probability, visited by them. This can be accomplished by sending the birds anywhere north of Bird Key. Secondly, on account of the fact that Bird Key is the last body of land between the coast of Florida and the coast of Texas, the birds can be sent out for hundreds of miles over open water. There is thus afforded an opportunity for testing homing where apparently no visual landmarks can exist. These two conditions have never before been realized, and they are conditions which are indispensable in even a preliminary scientific study of homing. The 1907 investigation already referred to is concerned largely with instincts in terns those of feeding, nesting, brooding, etc. It was necessary to have some survey made of these instinctive types of behavior before the homing instinct itself could be investigated. A part of the opening paper, pp. 355, in the present series gives much additional data on the nesting activities which have a bearing upon the control of experiments on homing. These observations are concerned with the instincts connected with the brooding of the egg, such as the number of shifts.at the nest; retention of mate and nest habits; water habits and instincts, etc. It is thought that these observations, when taken in cormection with those made in the first study, afford accurate means of testing the homing ability in these two species of terns. Having made the necessary investigation of the instinctive life of the terns, it became possible to carry out homing experiments. Preliminary experiments in 1910 (p.47) showed clearly that in order to make a success of the work, some well-trained investigator would have to be sent out with the birds. In the 1910 work the terns were sent out with responsible men attached to the laboratory but who had had no training in feeding and caring for them. On account of this, usually something like half of the birds died en route, and the rest were released at the more distant points in very poor condition. In order to meet this difficulty. Dr. K.S. Lashley was asked in 1913 to associate himself with the work. The very successful returns from the second Galveston trip(p. 54)are due largely to his care of the birds on the forward journey. In addition to his invaluable aid in the problem of distant orientation. Dr. Lashley separately began a study of proximate orientation (p.61), i.e., of the behavior of the terns in locating the nests, mates, young, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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Download or read book Orientation in Birds written by P. Berthold and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If it is true that science proceeds from a romantic through a scientific to a technological stage, then research on bird orientation is certainly on its move from its first to its second grade, and recent developments in radiotelemetry and satellite tracking of migrating birds might already indicate the advent of the third stage. At this juncture, Orientation in Birds is a timely account. Even though the study of animal migration in general, and bird navigation in particular, has produced a literature of impressive proportions, the threads provided by the plethora of research papers, review articles and symposiums volumes have not yet been knitted into a theoretical fabric. This is partly due to our still incomplete understanding of fundamen tal topics in avian navigation. The answer to the most intriguing question of how a bird displaced to "unknown" territory finds its way back home is as obscure now as it was a few decades ago. Whether and how birds solve this problem by using far ranging grid-maps or more local familiar-area maps, as has been proposed off and on, is still a matter of heated debates. These debates frequently center around provocative hypotheses - let alone the question about the physical (topographic, magnetic, infrasonic, olfactory) parameters which might constitute such maps.
Download or read book Homing with the Birds the History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience with the Birds written by Gene Stratton-Porter and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII Shall We Pay Our Debt? LL ornithologists have agreed for a long time past that we owed much of our comfort to JL m, the birds. To-day, it is being generally conceded that if every form of bird life were swept from the face of the earth "at one fell swoop" man could not long survive. This will seem extreme to those who have not made a study of the situation, but if anyone having access to cultivated country and villages will keep his eyes open and think out the subject to its ultimate limit, he will see that the destruction of all plant life is inevitable without the work of the birds in its preservation. The most intimate part of my life work among the birds has been at their nesting time, when I was able to see exactly what was collected by the parents in rearing their young. All of my life I have been deeply interested in this subject because much of my life I have been in a position where I was forced to feed and care for young birds personally or to let them die; so for the birds of my location I can speak with authority as to their feeding habits, in so far as they can be followed with the eye or the field glass. It is my self-appointed task to preserve useful bird life, not to take it on any excuse whatever. But going beyond the limits of my work, comes that of the statisticians, who have carefully counted how often birds fed their young in a given time, and who have not hesitated to kill our most exquisite songsters by the dozen in order to analyze the contents of their crops. The general summing up of both branches of investigation results in the verdict that life on this planet would be insupportable without the protection afforded us by the birds against winged pests, bugs, worms, and caterpillars, larvae, aphis, ...
Download or read book Psychology Gets in the Game written by Christopher D. Green and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although sport psychology did not fully mature as a recognized discipline until the 1960s, pioneering psychologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, making greater use of empirical research methodologies, sought to understand mental factors that affect athletic performance. Though the psychologists behind the studies described here worked independently of one another and charted their own distinct courses of inquiry, their works, taken together, provided the corpus of precedents and foundations on which the modern field of sport psychology was built. The essays collected in this volume tell the stories not only of these psychologists and their subjects but of the social and academic context that surrounded them, shaping and being shaped by their ideas"--Provided by publisher.
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