Miriam Liedvogel is currently working at the CAnMove Centre, Department of Biology at Lund University. She has done extensive research and is a real expert on Animal Navigation, which is why she is one of our heroes. You will be able to see much of her work on Google > Miriam Liedvogel. She is currently researching finding markers to get a…
The Royal Institute of Navigation Conference RIN 13 – Bionav – is the world’s leading Animal Navigation conference took place at the Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham, Surrey, on 11-13 April 2013. Leading scientists from all over the world participated and presented their work. All areas of animal navigation techniques were covered, including, in some…
The Economist have just published a letter I wrote to them regarding a recent academic article on Viking sunstones. In the following letter I put forward what I believe to be an original argument on this popular subject. I have no way of proving this theory, which puts me in good company with the scientists…
Editor’s comment: This is Simon Raggett’s latest piece. He has been immensely helpful in putting together my poster for BioNav RIN 13. We are all struggling to see if we can understand how animal navigation might work. As Jim Khalili says, we cannot just use quantum mechanics as the magic solution to hitherto intractable problems. …
Nature’s Radar a paper by Tristan Gooley (one of our heroes) published in the Journal of Navigation in October 2012. Tristan and a friend set out in a little boat to navigate from Kirkwall on the North of Ockney via the Faroes over the top of Iceland to Reykjavik. Please see http://www.naturalnavigator.com/nature’s_radar.pdf for the full paper. The…
In 1967 Eric Eastwood published a book called Radar Ornithology. Whilst research has moved on since then, this is a seminal book and gives really useful hard information on the migration habits of Passerines including thrushes, continental robins, warblers, starlings and woodcock. These birds make their migratory journeys to England in the autumn from the…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1419179/ This link takes you to an interesting article covering what happens when the Pineal Gland is calcified. The fact that calcification of the Pineal really impairs navigational ability makes us think that this proves that the Pineal is critical to animal navigation. Richard Nissen Editor