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Abstract |
Homing pigeons have remarkable navigational
skills that allow them to
fi nd their way back to the loft when
released from an unfamiliar location hundreds
of miles away. To perform such a feat,
they rely on various cues, such as odors and
Earth’s magnetic fi eld ( 1, 2). Yet, how birds
and other animals obtain magnetic-fi eld information
has been a mystery. On page 1054 of
this issue, Wu and Dickman ( 3) report how
this information is neurally encoded and suggest
a candidate magnetic sensory organ in
the inner ear of the pigeon ( 4). |
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