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Nature's compass : the mystery of animal navigation / James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Science essentials | Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.))Publication details: Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, c2012.Description: xiii, 294 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691140452 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0691140456 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QL782 .G68 2012
Contents:
Navigating : problems and strategies -- When and where -- A matter of time -- Insect compasses -- Vertebrate compasses -- Piloting and inertial navigation -- The map sense -- Migration and the future : conservation and extinction.
Summary: Explores the methods by which animals navigate throughout the world, examining such examples as the monarch butterfly's use of an internal clock and the honey bee's reliance on the sun and mental maps.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Navigating : problems and strategies -- When and where -- A matter of time -- Insect compasses -- Vertebrate compasses -- Piloting and inertial navigation -- The map sense -- Migration and the future : conservation and extinction.

Explores the methods by which animals navigate throughout the world, examining such examples as the monarch butterfly's use of an internal clock and the honey bee's reliance on the sun and mental maps.