Robins have a magnetic compass in both eyes

Nature

Volumn 471, Issue 7340, 2011, Pages

  Hein, Christine Maira ^a   Engels, Svenja ^a   Kishkinev, Dmitry ^a   Mouritsen, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUTUMN; BIRD; EYE; EYELID CLOSURE; MAGNETIC COMPASS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; EYE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MAGNETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 79953236316     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09875     Document Type: Note

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