{"id":5797,"date":"2011-06-27T03:10:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T10:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2011-11-08T21:43:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:43:06","slug":"how-birds-navigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/how-birds-navigate\/","title":{"rendered":"How Birds Navigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/how-birds-navigate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5798\" title=\"how-birds-navigate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/how-birds-navigate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/how-birds-navigate.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/how-birds-navigate-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/how-birds-navigate-340x342.jpg 340w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/how-birds-navigate-90x90.jpg 90w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/how-birds-navigate-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>Many avian life forms posses a region of their bodies that contain a biological magnetite, generally in their beaks.\u00a0 It is believed this gives them a strong magnetoception and thus allows them to sense direction accurately.\u00a0 More recently, it has been shown that certain birds have the ability to see magnetic fields.\u00a0 How this works is the Earth\u2019s magnetic field effects how long a certain molecule, cryptochrome, in their photoreceptor cells stays in the active state.\u00a0 This then affects the light sensitivity of the bird\u2019s retinal neurons.\u00a0 The net effect is the birds can perceive magnetic fields with their eyes.\u00a0\u00a0 The biological magnate and ability to perceive magnetic fields with their eyes are thought to combine to form a very accurate mapping and directional system in the birds.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How Many Senses Humans Have\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/humans-have-a-lot-more-than-five-senses\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn About How Many Senses Humans Actually Have<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Many avian life forms posses a region of their bodies that contain a biological magnetite, generally in their beaks.\u00a0 It is believed this gives them a strong magnetoception and thus allows them to sense direction accurately.\u00a0 More recently, it has been shown that certain birds have the ability to see magnetic fields.\u00a0 How this works is the Earth\u2019s magnetic [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1038],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-bird-navigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}