Pole-Seeking Brownian Motion and Bird Navigation
趋极布朗运动与鸟类导航
Summary This paper is not concerned with identifying the mechanism of bird navigation, but rather with assessing the degree of success possible using very bad navigational aids of whatever sort. Flight-paths are simulated using virtually no hypotheses, and all numerical parameters are determined ornithologically. The results are compared with the performance of actual birds, and also with a brownian model which is analytically convenient. It turns out that some formulae for…