title: Animal navigation: memories of home.
abstract: Sea turtles memorize the magnetic coordinates of their natal beach, returning to that combination of parameters to lay eggs decades later. The intervening secular (year-to-year) variation in field intensity and inclination can lead the nesting females to a series of predictably different beaches.
authors: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Electronic address: gould@princeton.edu.
authors: James L
authors: JL
authors: Gould
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006702:Homing Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D060328:Magnetic Phenomena; D065854:Spatial Navigation / Q000502:physiology*; D014426:Turtles / Q000502:physiology*