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How do animals know where to go?

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Homing Pigeons Use Infrasound to Help Navigate

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Homing pigeons may be using infrasound, very low frequency sound, to help them navigate. They can't successfully use their magnetic compass in the absence of light. The theory is that where the pigeons live, they listen to the infrasound in that location. It has a very, very particular quality, like a note of a bell or something.

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