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
Suddenly after years of decline the eels are back swimming up the rivers in the west coasts of Europe in their millions. We think that their arrival is the result of a truly remarkable journey from their breeding grounds in the Saragossa Sea off Bermuda. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_life_history for more history. There is also the Sustainable Eel Group www.sustainableeelgroup.com
Click here for Wikipedia’s explanation of the Arctic Tern.
A little navigational help from animals. Tristam Gooley, who is one of our heroes, and a brilliant natural navigator have posted this fascinating link to his web site. You should follow this and delve into his other insights too as surely animals use many of the same clues as the ones that Tristan points out:…
Elephant seals (sea elephants) are large, oceangoing seals in the genus Mirounga. There are two species: the northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris) and the southern elephant seal (M. leonina). Both were hunted to the brink of extinction by the end of the 19th century, but numbers have since recovered. The northern elephant seal, somewhat smaller than its southern relative, ranges over the Pacific coast of the U.S., Canada and Mexico….
Recently Vera Brust, Bianca Michalik and Ommo Hüppop have produced a paper called “To cross or not to cross – thrushes at the German North Sea coast adapt flight and routing to wind conditions in autumn”. They looked at some of the thrush family (blackbirds, redwings and song thrushes) that migrate across the North sea from the German…
Quantum mechanics proposes that there has been a quantum computer running since the beginning of time that records everything, and also that there is entanglement where things are forever linked however far apart they are This world is so weird and unlikely that it is impossible to understand properly or as Feynman said if you…