Q: how do animals navigate during migration?(Science 101: Background boosters for elementary teachers) From: Science and Children | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 National Science Teachers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A: Migrating animals do amazing things. Homing pigeons can find their way "home" across hundreds of miles; salmon return to their spawning location thousands of miles away; turtles travel over eight thousand miles to lay their eggs in the spot where they originally hatched; Sassy, Chance, and Shadow found their way home across miles of wilderness (obscure movie reference); and my son unerringly finds his way to the kitchen in the middle of the night when it's pitch black.

Scientists have studied how animals navigate around the globe (my son excluded) and discovered a number ...

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