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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adithi Ramakrishnan

Pigeons may be navigating with their liver, study suggests

Pigeon Navigation - (copyright for Christian Ziegler and Max-Planck for Animal Behaviour, Konstanz)

A surprising gut feeling may help pigeons find their way home.

Animals use various techniques to navigate including following the stars and remembering key landmarks. Birds, fish and turtles orient themselves using Earth's magnetic field as a compass. But it's not yet clear how exactly they do this.

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