Animal Magnetism: How Animals Navigate.

ORIGINAL: SciShow

Hank tells us about new research into the question of how animals navigate from place to place - while the problem is still unresolved, we do have some hypotheses, and they all involve something called "magnetoreception."

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CITATIONS

• How salmon find their way home up river
• Mystery of bird navigation system still unsolved
• Scientists use trout to unlock the secrets of magnetic cells
• Arctic tern crowned king of commuters
• Magnetoreception in animals
• Longest animal migration measured, bird flies 40,000 miles a year
• Structure and function of the vertebrate magnetic sense
• Human cryptochrome exhibits light-dependent magnetosensitivity
• Can humans sense the earth’s magnetism?
• Humans may have ‘magnetic’ sixth sense