Hatchling sea turtles use surface waves to establish a magnetic compass direction

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-77

  Goff, Matthew ^a   Salmon, Michael ^a   Lohmann, Kenneth J ^b,c  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031980407     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0577     Document Type: Article

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