Researchers explain how birds navigate
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:53
in Biology & Nature
It has long been known that birds and many other animals including turtles, salamanders and lobsters, use the Earth`s magnetic field to navigate, but the nature of their global positioning systems (GPS) has not been completely understood.
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