Magnetic contraption tricks migrating songbirds into changing direction
Cell Press | Phys.org | Oct. 5, 2015
“The most amazing part of our finding is that the same birds sitting on the same dune of Courish Spit on the Baltic coast shifted their orientation from their normal migratory direction—northeast—to the northwest after we slightly turned current control knobs on our power supplies,” …
The birds were housed inside the magnetic coil system for several days.
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What happens if they turn it to eleven?
Seems like a really mean thing to do to the poor, innocent birdies. And that’s coming from a cat!