How Animals Build a Sense of Direction
On a remote island in the Indian Ocean, six closely watched bats took to the star-draped skies. As they flew across the seven-acre speck of land, devices implanted in their brains pinged data back to a group of sleepy-eyed neuroscientists monitoring them from below. The researchers were working to understand how these flying mammals, who have brains not unlike our own, develop a sense of direction…
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[1]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-animals-build-a-sense-of-direction-20260121/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-animals-build-a-sense-of-direction-20260121/
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