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Authors currently disagree as to whether random scatter, familiarity with a large area, or navigation is the basic mechanism of homing in rodents. Starting from the behavior of animals that fail to home, I present a new hypothesis based on motivational factors, which could explain the observed decreases of homing success that occur with increasing distances in rodents and other animals, irrespective of the possible mechanisms involved. I also suggest that consideration of the behavior of nonhomers is essential in attempts to explain homing.
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Bovet, J. (1978). Homing in Wild Myomorph Rodents: Current Problems. In: Schmidt-Koenig, K., Keeton, W.T. (eds) Animal Migration, Navigation, and Homing. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11147-5_40
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