Re: Homing Pigeons? Try Homing Crocodiles...

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

Bird has compass superimposed on its field of vision.   It looks like a 
human video game.    Compass has magnetic north marked on it with an arrow.

Chuckle.   You learn something new every day.

No wonder my birds call me simple minded.   I didn't know they thought I was 
simple-sighted.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dann Pigdon" <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Homing Pigeons? Try Homing Crocodiles...


> The latest neurological research by German scientists has shown that 
> signals
> sent by cryptochromes in the eyes of garden warblers are processed by the 
> optic
> lobe in the brain:
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/27/2044505.htm



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