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Honey bees are not effected by Magnetism
Our associate editor Antonio Nafarrate has brought this paper to my attention. “Does the Earth’s magnetic Field serve as a reference alignment for the Honeybee waggle dance” (Dec 2014) by Professor Gerhard Gries et al. This paper is fascinating as it uses the famous waggle dance performed inside the hive by the foragers to show…
Understanding the Sami people and how they navigated by our Deputy Editor Kerstin Williams
Editor’s comments: Please find this extract talking about the Sami, the ancient aborigine people of Northern Sweden, Finland etc. We have sometimes called them Lapps see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people This extract comes from a book about the ancient lifestyle of these people and has been translated by our Deputy Editor Kerstin Williams who is working with us to understand the Sami people…
Dolphins – bit more information March 2012
Recently the New Scientist has run a number of articles on Dolphins and their communication. animalnav.org has already begun to discuss Dolphin communication see other posts. Our key point on this is that most “researchers” are allergic to the very idea of Telepathy but this is the very word that describes how dolphins communicate together….
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….
Data collection for tracking animals
You may be interested in how the data is collected for tracking animals. Biotrack is a British company that helps and advises on the best systems to use. The geolocator is fascinating, it uses The longitudinal estimate of the location of the tag at any point in time is determined with reference to the time of…
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…