Do Chickadees have an inherited star map?

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newtonian

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Back in 1965 Vitus B. Droscher reported in chapter 13 of his book “The Mysterious Senses of Animals” that blackcap chickadees had an inherited celestial star map. <br /><br />The experiments were done in the Olbers Planetarium of the Bremen Maritime Academy by German zoologist Dr. Franz Sauer and his wife.<br /><br />Essentially, blackcaps navigate at night and can do so when it is partly cloudy but not when it is overcast. <br /><br />The Sauers used blackcaps hatched without being exposed to the night sky, and their navigation had to be inherited, not learned.<br /><br />Do we have any updates in the research done on blackcaps in the last 40 years?<br /><br />BTW - this was a very old thread, I think. I forget the answers posted!
 
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billslugg

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Magnetite based navigational clues rotate with the Earth. These Chickadees are able to navigate relative to the celestial sphere. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div>
 
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docm

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Magnetite has also been found in the human brain. IRRC it was in 1992. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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xmo1

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The North Pole and the North Celestial Pole point in the same direction. Magnetic is only slightly off course. Anyway, I'll take a look at the text. It looks interesting. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>DenniSys.com</p> </div>
 
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kmarinas86

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<font color="yellow">The experiments were done in the Olbers Planetarium of the Bremen Maritime Academy by German zoologist Dr. Franz Sauer and his wife.</font><br /><br />Was the planetarium aligned with the true night sky? If not, then it appears that this has little to do with magnetite.
 
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