Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation
- ISBN-10
- 0691140456
- ISBN-13
- 9780691140452
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-04-29
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Authors
- James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould
Description
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.
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