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Bar headed goose
Recent work at Bognor University by a team headed by Charles Bishop has shown they actually follow the contours as they fly from their breeding ground in the high lakes North of the Himalayas south over the Himalayas into the Indian sub continent See wikipedia for images and an overview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar-headed_goose This is an interesting…
Mass beaching fuels Japan quake fears
Antonio Nafarrate, one of our editors, shares this with you: He explains that this was caused by changes in the gravitational topography. >>>> http://news.yahoo.com/mass-beaching-fuels-unscientific-japan-quake-fears-070314256.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=ma
How young animals learn to migrate
While advances in biologging have revealed many spectacular animal migrations, it remains poorly understood how young animals learn to migrate. Even in social species, it is unclear how migratory skills are transmitted from one generation to another and what implications this may have. Here we show that in Caspian terns Hydroprogne caspia family groups, genetic and foster…
Avian navigation
Intro This piece has been forwarded to me by one of our editors: Simon Raggett. He gives us the quantum twist. You will also find much written here on the subject of avian navigation based around gravity from our editor Antonio Nafarrate, who has been in communication with the authors of this piece. Please follow…
An interview with an older Sami Olle
>>>>intro>>> I think that the indigenous peoples have a lot to teach us about navigation as it is probable that they have not lost the art of navigation without modern aids and perhaps they can describe how they find their way. Please find an interview with Olle Utsi a wise Sami http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people The Sami / Lapps…
Viking Sunstones by Tristan Gooley
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…