Wether it's a human trying to figure out the quickest way to the airport, a salmon returning to the waters where they were born, or a dog trying to figure out the perfect place to poop, almost everyliving thing uses some sort of innate or technological navigation system every day.
Wether it's a human trying to figure out the quickest way to the airport, a salmon returning to the waters where they were born, or a dog trying to figure out the perfect place to poop, almost everyliving thing uses some sort of innate or technological navigation system every day.
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[Truth or Fail]
Orientation of mental maps:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0135803
Humans sensing magnetic fields:
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/can-humans-sense-the-magnetic-field--65611
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Marine chronometer
http://www.jgiesen.de/LunarDistance/index.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3087198?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/navigating-at-sea/longitude-problem
https://archive.org/details/principlesmrhar00unkngoog/page/n22
https://www.timeandwatches.com/p/the-detent-escapement-from-marine.html
Etak navigator
[Ask the Science Couch]
Sunstone/calcite:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/11/viking-sunstone-revealed
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.172187
https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110131/full/news.2011.58.html
Image of calcite: https://www.sciencesource.com/Doc/TR1_WATERMARKED/6/9/f/3/SS2509789.jpg?d63642476241
