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Chickens also orient themselves by the Earth's magnetic field

07-05-2007 · EurekAlert!

Until recently, people believed that the ability to orient themselves by the Earth's magnetic field was restricted to migratory birds. Now ornithologists at Frankfurt University have discovered that domestic chickens also have a built-in compass. It is clear that a magnetic sense of direction developed at an early stage of evolution. The Earth's magnetic field was presumably used by the ancestors of today's birds as an aid to finding their way about their environment.

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