The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News [Unofficial]How pigeons find their way home: the answer is a magnetic compass in the liver
El Duvelle NeuroSeen on LinkedIn from the Royal Institute of Navigation - anyone interested in proposing or contributing to a session?
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Call for Session Topics - Animal Navigation Conference 2026 [15/04/2026 to 17/04/2026 in Egham, Surrey, UK]
Animal navigation is a fascinating, variable, magic and broad field so we want to make sure ANC26 covers the wide variety of areas and disciplines representing this field.
🐜 'cognitive map debate' in insect navigation
🧠 Neurobiology of mammalian navigation
🧭 Physics behind animal navigation
What can you, or your colleagues, present on?
If you would like to submit a proposal for a session, the deadline is fast approaching: 15th July 2025
Learn more: https://rin.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1806468&group=
Science NewsSoprano pipistrelles calibrate their magnetic compass at sunset & are sensitive to the angle at which the field dips towards the Earth's surface. #bats #animalnavigation #magnetoreception #BiologyLetters #UOL @oliverlindecke @dfg_public @SFB_1372
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/12/12/migratory-bats-can-detect-the-earths-magnetic-field
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/12/12/migratory-bats-can-detect-the-earths-magnetic-field
idwSoprano pipistrelles calibrate their magnetic compass at sunset & are sensitive to the angle at which the field dips towards the Earth's surface. #bats #animalnavigation #magnetoreception #BiologyLetters #UOL @oliverlindecke @dfg_public @SFB_1372
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/12/12/migratory-bats-can-detect-the-earths-magnetic-field
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2023/12/12/migratory-bats-can-detect-the-earths-magnetic-field
Journal of Exp BiolIn their #JEB100 Commentary Joe Wynn & Miriam Liedvogel critique recent advances in #animalnavigation using Tinbergen's 4 questions to explore how and why experimental approaches help us understand this behaviour
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/10/jeb245441/310756
#birds #zoology #biology #science
