Animal Navigation Quotes

The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.

Everything move...you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines of light in the sky. He saw everything as lines of light. That's how he was built. So we don't know how he moved, either. Any more than the birds.

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance. It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense - the home sense - which operates unerringly.