The motivating effect of Tempo 60!
After years of evaluation and communication with enthusiasts, we can conclude that Tempo 60 visibly stimulates motivation and the desire to fly. The exact influence on return performance (how fast) has not yet been measured.
Exhibitions: How to prepare my birds?
Birds are cared for and prepared over a whole year for the highlight, which is the exhibition, where awards are given out.The bird is made up beautifully for the show.
The road home
In animal groups where specific individuals disproportionately influence collective decisions, the whole group’s performance may suffer if these individuals have incorrect information. Whether leaders in such situations can be replaced in their roles by better-informed group mates is an essential question in understanding the adaptive consequences of collective decision-making.
With pigeons, they used a time-shifting procedure (from an artificially set day-night clock) to manipulate the predictability of directional error in navigational information from established leaders within the swarm hierarchy of carrier pigeons (Columba livia).