Chickens orient using a magnetic compass
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Chickens orient using a magnetic compass
Although behavioural experiments show that a wide range of animals use the earth’s magnetic field as a compass for orientation, evidence from conditioning experiments has proved elusive [1]. In birds, the only two successful attempts of operant conditioning to magnetic stimuli [2,3] both involved magnetic anomalies rather than changes in magnetic direction. By using the young domestic chick’s m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.08.017