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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 (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.))Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400841660
  • 1400841666
  • 1280494158
  • 9781280494154
  • 9786613589385
  • 6613589381
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nature's compass.DDC classification:
  • 591.56/8 23
LOC classification:
  • QL782 .G68 2012eb
Online resources:
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.

Print version record.

English.

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