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| Luschi, Paolo; Benhamou, Simon; Girard, Charlotte; Ciccione, Stéphane; Roos, David; Sudre, Joël; Benvenuti, Silvano. |
| Marine turtles are renowned long-distance navigators, able to reach remote targets in the oceanic environment; yet the sensory cues and navigational mechanisms they employ remain unclear [1-3]. Recent arena experiments indicated an involvement of magnetic cues in juvenile turtles' homing ability after simulated displacements [4, 5], but the actual role of geomagnetic information in guiding turtles navigating in their natural environment has remained beyond the reach of experimental investigations. In the present experiment, twenty satellite-tracked green turtles (Chelonia mydas) were transported to four open-sea release sites 100-120 km from their nesting beach on Mayotte island in the Mozambique Channel; 13 of them had magnets attached to their head [6]... |
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| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2007/publication-2407.pdf |
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