The amazing navigation of Shearwaters
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How animals navigate
Do animals have a sense of direction? How do they find their way home? Learn about animal navigation and how different creatures use their senses to get around.
Monarch Butterflies
Here is a link to Monarch Butterflies http://phys.org/tags/monarch+butterflies/ Editor’s remark I have difficulty understanding these results which suggest that Cryptrochromes are involved which I am fairly clear is impossible as there is not enough time for the quantum coherence to take place. Inclination compasses are very inaccurate as there can be huge changes locally due to…
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…
Further background information on Navigation based around Gravity and Gyros by Antonio Nafarrate
Let us take a fun ride to the North Pole and set up a pendulum. Once we are done we should launch it to swing taking care that we do not push it left or right so it swings in a nice vertical plane. After an hour has passed we notice that the plane of oscillation has rotated…
Does your dog wait for you (their owner) to come home? – An experiment
Please participate! An experiment to see how dogs respond to their owners. Does your dog wait for you (their owner) to come home? If this is your case please participate in this experiment. Introduction Rupert Sheldrake is a hero of ours and has written a book we have reviewed “Dogs that know when their owners are…
Stephen Durnford – DNA, learned behaviour and instinct
I am delighted that Stephen Durnford has agreed to provide us with this fascinating exposition of how Instinct might work. We at www.animalnav.org. are always searching to go beyond phrases that do not describe in detail how things work so Durnford by suggesting that instinctive behaviour is passed from generation to generation encoded in DNA (which…
Gravity and Gyro effects are the basis of animal navigation by Antonio Nafarrate
Antonio Nafarrate has developed a fascinating new model of how animals navigate based on the forces of Gravity and the use of “gyros” by animals to orientate themselves. We agree that the idea of the magnet field as a navigational aid is increasingly being shown to be unlikely. This is the introduction for his longer…
