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Secrets of Animal Navigators

any animals find their way across continents or even around the world every year. The homing pigeon will fly up to 700 miles (1,127 km) in a single day to return to its roost. How does it figure out how to get there? How does the loggerhead turtle navigate 7,500 miles (12,070 km) across the Pacific Ocean? We humans sometimes need GPS just to get to dance class! The answer is migrating animals have a variety of super skills. Sometimes they use the same basic senses we do to get around, other times they sense things our bodies can’t

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