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A complete overview of animal navigation 2015
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/212/22/3597.full This link is a very complete overview of the animal navigation at present in 2015. It covers all the important work that has been done and discusses what has been found along with all the problems associated with different approaches. As you will see it ends up by saying that we still do not…
Homing Snails
We recently posted an article by Antonio Nafarrate which refers to Jill Moss’s snails and their ability to home. Since then there has been much in the UK papers about snails having a strong sense of place and returning to it (there was an article in the Daily Telegraph, “why slugs and snails thrown over…
Dr Kate Jeffery’s paper 0ct 2017
Dr Kate Jeffery is one of our heroes and has a lab at University College London where she experiments with what the brain is doing when rats navigate around a maze. In her experimental rig, she can see neurons fire up as the rat faces in different directions (head direction cells) while it is exploring….
Summary of ideas Spring 2014
Intro I have put together this article to spell out some of the thinking that I have come across recently. A lot is highly contentious (such as Torsion waves) but as we struggle to understand how animals (and humans) navigate effortlessly, ideas which seemed so strong suddenly seem to be beset by impossible conditions. We…
Fiona Duncan’s Dolphin sighting
When I was 21 – many years ago – I was working as a cook on charter yachts in the Caribbean and America. For a short time, I joined a strange craft called Alianora, an ancient and battered wooden sailing yacht which we were taking from Newport, Rhode Island to Florida where we were to…
How do dogs relate to their owners?
Intro>> Here is a little story which asks how dogs relate to their owners. If when you read this you have opinions we would very much like to hear them and perhaps publish them. ———— A few years ago the mother of a friend died. She had always kept an Alsatian dog who was her…