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smithsonianmag.com·

How Do Pigeons Find Their Way Home? New Research Suggests That the Birds' Remarkable Navigational Skills Come From Their Livers

How pigeons exploit magnetic fields for navigation

The Cool Down·

What helps pigeons find their way home isn't their eyes or beak — it's their liver, study says

A remarkable new study suggests pigeons may navigate using their liver — solving a decades-long mystery about how birds find their way home across hundreds of miles by pointing to an organ no one had been looking at

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science.orf.at·

Tauben navigieren mit der Leber