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Learning is largely a programmed behavior, governed by a type of algorithm, particularly for animals with limited cognitive ability.

Insects such as ants and beetles use ingenious processes in their brains to work out how far they’ve travelled and in what direction - we’ve now discovered how they remember their way home.

https://www.afinalwarning.com/517450.html (Natural News) A new study published in the journal  In one test, the bonnetheads were tricked into thinking that they were located south of their home. In response, the sharks positioned themselves in a northerly direction, suggesting that they used the artificial magnetic field to orient themselves homeward. “It had been unresolved how sharks managed to successfully navigate during migration to targeted locations,” said Keller, who is a resea...

Albert Einstein Ponders Birds and Bees in Previously Unpublished Letter Photo: Photo by Central Press/Getty Images (Getty Images) In 1949, a 70-year-old  Albert Einstein shot off a message to England-based radar researcher Glyn Davys. The topic wasn’t physics or radar—it was birds and bees and the way those animals navigate. Advertisement The letter was published earlier this week in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A, after being shared with the research team by Glyn’s widow, Judit...

Credit: Photo by Oliver Lindecke Mammals see with their eyes, hear with their ears and smell with their nose. But which sense or organ allows them to orient themselves on their migrations, which sometimes go far beyond their local foraging areas and therefore require an extended ability to navigate? Scientific experiments led by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), published together with Prof. Richard A. Holland (Bangor University, UK) and Dr. Gunārs P?tersons (L...

October 5, 2017 William Wehrum is a lawyer and once, apparently, worked for the EPA. Trump is trying to appoint him to be assistant administrator for air and radiation. This is a reasonably important job that concerns many aspects of the environment. Watch: https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/… More reads Imagine with me, for a moment, that the zombie invasion has begun. You try to escape, but the zombies are just too much to handle. You cant run fast enough. Theyre everywhere. Your fa...