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.
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…
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…
We believe that animal navigation is based on Quantum effects which are inimical to a classic Newtonian science based approach. This world is so weird and unlikely that it is impossible to understand properly or as Feynman said if you think you understand it you must have misunderstood. Dowsers know that you can access this…
———————- Editor’s comment This work by Valerii Kanevskyi, (High Technologies Institute, Kiev, Ukraine) is very interesting and it looks as if this work is part of the bigger picture of understanding how animal navigation may work and I think enables us to see a next step forward to generating a universal theory that we need…
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. …