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1) The article claims, the conference thinks you're wrong. "This marked a change from previous years, Richard Nissen, a member of the Institute, told me, when
by aaron695 10y ago
1) The article claims, the conference thinks you're wrong.
"This marked a change from previous years, Richard Nissen, a member of the Institute, told me, when a range of other navigation aids were part of the discussion: landmarks, olfactory cues, memory, genetics, polarized light, celestial objects. “Everyone now seems completely sold on the idea that animal navigation is based on magnetism,” Nissen said. Human-centric as it sounds, most of the conference’s attendees believe that animals possess a kind of compass."
When humans get lost it's only memory and random walking, it's a good theory animals only have one more enhancement, small memory cues, magnetic and randomness.
- dhimes 10y agoMy father had a pretty good innate sense of direction. He just said it was a feeling, and he could cross-check with the sun, etc., if available- but could do pretty well without it. He said he was pretty old when he realized that not everybody could do that. Perhaps it's not totally gone from humans.
- Someone 10y ago"one more enhancement" is not the same as "only use their compass", and "small memory cues" is what is called a mental map (those do not have to be complete, and can be very sketchy) in the literature.