This is an English term for sheep that learn to live in a particular location who do not stray from their “land”. For us this is another piece of the jigsaw of how animals operate in the wild and know where “home” is.
DEFRA ( Britain’s government Agency for Rural Affairs) asked ADAS to do this report for them.
You also find this piece interesting too:
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/footnmouth/hefted1.html
In September 2015 I was asked to give a workshop at the Annual Conference of Dowsers on Animal Navigation. Of course I talked about how animals, including birds, navigate and all the outstanding questions that remain on how they do it. Those who came to my presentation were some of the best dowsers in the…
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…
British Trust for Ornithology: www.bto.org/ Bird research charity in the United Kingdom. Research investigating the populations, movements and ecology of wild birds. You will see that we have links to this site in several places but under especially under “cuckoo tracking” in recent post and interesting sites. Phil Atkinson (Head of International Research) spoke to me…
Our Editor Antonio Nafarrate has sent us this: Hello all and happy 2015. Please check enclosed forwarded video that is definite proof that birds have in their brains a Schuler tuned gyroscopically stabilized inertial platform. Best wishes from Antonio Nafarrate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPlkFPowCc
How do pigeons navigate? Racing homing pigeons navigate incredible distances with apparent ease. A champion racing pigeon can be released 400 miles from its home loft, in a place it has never been before, and return within 1 day. The last 40 miles of its journey, the bird navigates by sight. But over the other 360…
How animals navigate has been a mystery forever. At present, the prevailing theory is that animal navigation is based on magnetic information. But there are huge problems with this approach. In order to use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate by, you need to know where you are and where you are going, as well…