How dim is dim? Precision of the celestial compass in moonlight and sunlight
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How dim is dim? Precision of the celestial compass in moonlight and sunlight.
Prominent in the sky, but not visible to humans, is a pattern of polarized skylight formed around both the Sun and the Moon. Dung beetles are, at present, the only animal group known to use the much dimmer polarization pattern formed around the Moon as a compass cue for maintaining travel direction. However, the Moon is not visible every night and the intensity of the celestial polarization pat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0191