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Using Pharmacological Manipulation and High-precision Radio Telemetry to Study the Spatial Cognition in Free-ranging Animals
Published on: November 6, 2016
Animal navigation: memories of home
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Abstract:
Sea turtles memorize the magnetic coordinates of their natal beach, returning to that combination of parameters to lay eggs decades later. The intervening secular (year-to-year) variation in field intensity and inclination can lead the nesting females to a series of predictably different beaches.
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