... species and used to test a large set of hypotheses to explain the mechanisms behind the magnetic body alignment and the magnetic sense in general. * Authors for correspondence ( [email protected] ; [email protected] ) Competing interests The authors declare no competing...

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...Tsutomu Nishimura; Hideyuki Okano; Harue Tada; Etsuko Nishimura; Kenji Sugimoto; Kaneo Mohri; Masanori Fukushima SUMMARY Animals from a wide range of taxa have been shown to possess magnetic sense and use magnetic compasses to orient; however, there is no information in the literature on whether...

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...Michael M. Walker; Joseph L. Kirschvink; Gufran Ahmed; Andrew E. Dizon ABSTRACT We challenge the hypothesis that fin whales use a magnetic sense to guide migration by testing for associations between geophysical parameters and the positions where fin whales were observed over the continental shelf...