Night-migratory songbirds possess a magnetic compass in both eyes.

Previous studies on European robins, Erithacus rubecula, and Australian silvereyes, Zosterops lateralis, had suggested that magnetic compass information is being processed only in the right eye and left brain hemisphere of migratory birds. However, recently it was demonstrated that both garden warbl...

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Glavni autori: Svenja Engels, Christine Maira Hein, Nele Lefeldt, Helmut Prior, Henrik Mouritsen
Format: Članak
Jezik:English
Izdano: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Serija:PLoS ONE
Online pristup:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3440406?pdf=render