Pigeons have a 'compass' in their brains

Friday, April 27, 2012 - 07:00 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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