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

By: Gould, James L, 1945-.
Contributor(s): Gould, Carol Grant.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)): Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, �2012Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781400841660; 1400841666; 1280494158; 9781280494154; 9786613589385; 6613589381.Subject(s): Animal navigation | Animaux -- Navigation | SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General | SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution | Animal navigationGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nature's compass.DDC classification: 591.56/8 Online resources: Click here to access online
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."-- Provided by publisher.
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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."-- Provided by publisher.

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