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Which type of animals find their way home using magnetism?

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Which type of animals find their way home using magnetism?
posted Nov 16, 2016 by Pankaj Deshmukh

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Migratory birds use magnetic clues to find their way south in fall and north in spring.

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Salamanders and frogs use the magnetic field for orientation when they have to find the direction of the nearest shore quickly.

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Elasmobranch fish have a special sensory organ to perceive electric fields with high accuracy and can use this organ also to detect magnetic fields.

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answer May 20, 2017 by Paxton Brown
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