Animals use the geomagnetic field in many ways: the magnetic vector provides a compass;
magnetic intensity and/or inclination play a role as a component of the navigational 'map' …

Diverse animals can detect magnetic fields but little is known about how they do so. Three
main hypotheses of magnetic field perception have been proposed. Electrosensitive marine …

Sentience–the ability to feel, perceive and experience–is central to the animal welfare
debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death …

Deleting a gene in an organism often has little phenotypic effect,,,,, owing to two
mechanisms of compensation,,,,,,. The first is the existence of duplicate genes: that is, the …

Animals are capable of true navigation if, after displacement to a location where they have
never been, they can determine their position relative to a goal without relying on familiar …

The avian magnetic compass has been well characterized in behavioral tests: it is an"
inclination compass" based on the inclination of the field lines rather than on the polarity …

Some vertebrates can navigate over long distances using the Earth's magnetic field, but the
sensory system that they use to do so has remained a mystery. Here we describe the key …

Many marine animals have evolved sensory abilities to use electric and magnetic cues in
essential aspects of life history, such as to detect prey, predators and mates as well as to …

Earth is one of the inner planets of the Solar System, but–unlike the others–it has an
oxidising atmosphere, relatively stable temperature, and a constant geomagnetic field …

The vector of the geomagnetic field provides animals with directional information, while
intensity and/or inclination provide them with positional information. For magnetoreception …