Explore: Magnetoreception

Magnetoreception is a sense which allows an organism to detect the Earth's magnetic field. Animals with this sense include some arthropods, molluscs, and

bioenergetics, muscle contraction, and electron transport in biomolecules. Magnetoreception is the ability of animals to navigate using the inclination of the

cycle and delayed metabolic output when compared to the wild type. Magnetoreception is a sense which allows an organism to detect a magnetic field to perceive

homing ability, meaning that it will generally return to its nest using magnetoreception. Flights as long as 1,800 km (1,100 miles) have been recorded by birds

related, magnetoreception via electromagnetic induction in the ampullae of Lorenzini is possible. A study from 2004 shows this magnetoreception by cartilaginous

of the robin has been extensively researched and uses vision-based magnetoreception, in which the robin's ability to sense the magnetic field of the Earth

are known to incorporate magnetite crystals in the upper beak for magnetoreception, which (in conjunction with cryptochromes in the retina) gives them

meat. Dogs' senses include vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and magnetoreception. One study suggests that dogs can feel small variations in Earth's

daylight vision, including some colour vision. Microbats make use of magnetoreception, in that they have a high sensitivity to the Earth's magnetic field

through the swim bladder. Some fish, including salmon, are capable of magnetoreception; when the axis of a magnetic field is changed around a circular tank