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Nature's compass : the mystery of animal navigation /
"Explores the methods by which animals navigate throughout the world, examining such examples as the monarch butterfly's use of an internal clock and the honey bee's reliance on the sun and mental maps."--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Science essentials (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.))
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Navigating : problems and strategies
- When and where
- A matter of time
- Insect compasses
- Vertebrate compasses
- Piloting and inertial navigation
- The map sense
- Migration and the future : conservation and extinction.