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Interesting! Monarch butterflies have a similar device. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5164 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5164
by unit91 8y ago
Interesting! Monarch butterflies have a similar device.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5164 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5164
- m4lvin 8y agoYes, this is not "the first reliable evidence that insects can use Earth’s magnetic field for navigation". In a very recent paper also ants have been shown to use the magnetic field: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.043 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.043 I am surprised neither the NYT article nor the new article refer to this.