Comment on Apparently they are actually for birds???
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day agomethod of navigating / spatial awareness that is still not well understood by science?
trial and error?
Comment on Apparently they are actually for birds???
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day agomethod of navigating / spatial awareness that is still not well understood by science?
trial and error?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Unless I am mistaken, a fair number of studies have determined that that is insufficient as a method/means to explain the capabilities that they routinely display.
Like one theory is that they somehow functionally have a literal metalic compass in their brain, or potentially … basically an ability to sense geomagnetic subtleties and anomalies, and use those as waypointz and guidelines, but… again I might be out of date here, but nobody has yet proposed a non problematic or well verified hypothesis.