Passenger pigeons help to navigate
Many animals travel long distances in groups but little is known about how this may influence the navigational skills of individuals.
Plants & Animals
Nov 15, 2012
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News tagged with homing pigeons
Finland team uses Earth's magnetic field for phone indoor positioning system
(Phys.org) -- Finland-based engineers have worked up a novel approach toward an indoor positioning system (IPS) inspired by the way certain animals--from homing pigeons to spiny lobsters--navigate their way with the help ...
All birds use the same navigation system
How do birds find their way when they fly? Scientists resolved this question a couple of years ago at DESY with the synchrotron radiation source DORIS III, when they discovered structures containing iron in the beaks of homing ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2010
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