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Successful acceptance test of the ICARUS qualification model
This site takes you into the world where technology is trying to understand animal migration by using tags and a sophisticated satellite system to follow routes taken by animals. Up until now tags have often been very heavy, or at least too heavy for a lot of tiny birds that make huge migrations such as…
Physical limits to magneto genetics – Markus Meister
AbstractThis is an analysis of how magnetic fields affect biological molecules and cells. It was prompted by a series of prominent reports regarding magnetism in biological systems. The first claims to have identified a protein complex that acts like a compass needle to guide magnetic orientation in animals (Qin et al., 2016). Two other articles report…
Another story of a person saved by their dog
The story is about a three years old girl lost in Siberia, she was with the family dog and a few days later the dog showed up at the home and they thought that the little girl would die because of the cold. But the dog guided the family to the girl that was rescued…
The Elephant Whisperer by Laurence Anthony
Lawrence Anthony sadly died in March 2012. The web link below tells the story of his death and how his elephants grieved for him and some history of his project to save a herd of elephants who he brought to his reserve At Thula Thula and tamed. Wild Elephants gather inexplicably, mourn death of “Elephant…
Investigating factors influencing initial orientation in nocturnally fledging seabirds
Please note that Tom Guildford is a very important Animal Navigation professor working at Oxford University. Manx Shearwaters have been extensively studied as they have amazing navigational skills but do not seems to rely on magnetism. Richard NissenEditor This is a summary of a paper protected by copyright: Syposz, M., Padget, O., Wynn, J., Gillies, N.,…
The hippocampus of rats
Prof Kate Jeffery has done some very interesting work on how the hippocampus of rats processes navigational information. Scientists are clear that the hippocampus is critical for navigation but believe that it is only one part of a larger system that has many functions including recognising landmarks, computing distances and directions etc. and forming memories….
