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Pigeons have tiny compasses in their heads

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In any event, they were surprisingly good at this. One researcher tested British school children to see if they could find their way home by driving them blindfolded, in a bus, out into the country and asking them to point their way home. That did in fact confuse them at least to some degree. Le-Qing Wu and J.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

Some of the first solid research pointing to a magnetic sense of some sort in birds was being produced at that time, and there were even people testing humans for a similar ability. It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Did birds repeatedly evolve migration because they can? Holy crap again!

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