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Navigation in Animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1969

G. V. T. Matthews
G. V. T. Matthews
Affiliation:
(The Wildfowl Trust)
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The last twenty-one years have seen some very striking advances in our knowledge of how animals can determine their location. In many cases we have learned that they have available a wider range of stimuli than ourselves for recognizing landmarks and for pilotage within their home area. Thus the associated senses of smell and taste are extraordinarily well developed in some species. The ability of the males of certain moths to detect the scent emitted by females at very considerable distances had long been known. More recently the extreme sensitivity, and selectivity, of fish to waterborne odours has led to an understanding of how they locate their home waters.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 22 , Issue 1: Special Issue - 21st year of publication , January 1969 , pp. 118 - 126
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1969

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