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. 2008 Mar 11;18(5):R214-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.01.011.

Animal navigation: the longitude problem

James L Gould  1
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Animal navigation: the longitude problem

James L Gould. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

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.

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