Pigeons have a 'compass' in their brains
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 21:00
in Biology & Nature
WACO, Texas, April 26 (UPI) -- Pigeons navigate by recording information about Earth's magnetic field, using certain brain cells as a sort of biological compass, U.S. scientists say.
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