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Originally Posted by David Navigation used to be done with a compass, but that never allowed people to navigate from an unknown point back to a known point. To do that, you have to have an accurate time fix (and a clear sky) to get longitude. The inclination of the magnetic field will give you latitude - but will it be accurate enough for bird navigation? |
It'll get the bird close. Then smells and sights can take over. Notice how birds migrate primarily north/south.
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Of course people used compasses, but at least over short distances, I don't think they ever used measurements of the inclination of the magnetic field (but I might be wrong).
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No, and that's why birds are clever than we used to be at navigation. Animals use lots of senses that we don't use at all or very poorly. Please don't tell me that bats are zooming around nabbing mosquitos by using the morphic field.
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My guess would be that the bird's morphic field receptor would be its brain. Also, I sense that Rupert hates to do invasive things to animals, so injuring them in various ways is probably not an option for him.
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How convenient. And how odd that all the people who have disected birds (and every other animal on the planet) have never found anything in the brain that looks like a morphic field receptor. There would have to be a transmitter, too, since the morphic field is supposedly formed by collective learning.
~~ Paul