Animal navigation: the longitude problem.
Determining longitude is incredibly difficult--for humans. Are animals fooling us into thinking that they have bicoordinate maps? New experiments show that at least some creatures effortlessly solve the seemingly insoluble problem of longitude.
Gould
James L
JL
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA. gould@princeton.edu
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