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In this paper you find a rather fascinating overview of the migration of Birds. Malik, Y. S., Arun Prince Milton, A., Ghatak, S. & Ghosh, S. 2021 Adaptation and Evolution of Bird Migration. In Role of Birds in Transmitting Zoonotic Pathogens, pp. 3-14. Singapore Springer Singapore. Malik 2021
Interesting link from a pigeon fancier on how pigeon’s navigate
Intro>>> Here is a very interesting article that talks about all the issues of racing pigeons. He stresses three very important points. First that in his opinion pigeons navigate very badly if on release the sun is not shining. He thinks that they need the sun to navigate by if possible. Second the wind direction…
Our co-editor Antonio Nafarrate has recently written these remarks
Following the 2016 Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) Conference on “Animal Navigation”, Dr. Painter claims that after some 50 years of work, the Magnetic “mechanism is not fully understood”. In my judgment, it will never be, because there is no such mechanism. The Geomagnetic Field (GMF) is only a minor perturbation to the true navigational…
Classic navigation
In classic navigation at the beginning of the journey we need to know where we are in order to plot where we are going. If you navigate with a compass you need a map to show you where you are and where you want to go. This then gives you a bearing and distance. With…
Dolphins – bit more information March 2012
Recently the New Scientist has run a number of articles on Dolphins and their communication. animalnav.org has already begun to discuss Dolphin communication see other posts. Our key point on this is that most “researchers” are allergic to the very idea of Telepathy but this is the very word that describes how dolphins communicate together….
Animal navigation based on Gravity
Here are the points to be added that I anticipated or predicted that they should happen as proof or implied consequences of my animal navigation model. The posting in the website is Introduction to my Ideas from Sept 2013 – “Gravity and Gyro effects are the basis of animal navigation, by Antonio Nafarrate“. Appendix. 1) From a paper by…