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 …

After half a century of cognitive revolution we remain far from agreement about what
cognition is and what cognition does. It was once thought that these questions could wait …

Long‐distance migration has evolved in many organisms moving through different media
and using various modes of locomotion and transport. Migration continues to evolve or …

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 …

The three-volume work Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This work is much …

Reptiles and amphibians have been neglected in research on cognition, emotions, sociality,
need for enriched and stimulating environments, and other topics that have been greatly …

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 …

Migratory marine animals exploit resources in different oceanic regions at different life
stages, but how they navigate to specific oceanic areas is poorly understood [1–3]. A …

Diverse animals detect the Earth's magnetic field and use it as a cue in orientation and
navigation. Most research on magnetoreception has focused on the directional orcompass' …

How migratory birds can navigate home from their wintering grounds to their breeding sites
over hundreds and thousands of kilometres has been an admired mystery over more than a …