Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 182: "The Astounding Internal Magnetic Compass Of Chickens"
This is the bonus show for Episode 182! ("why did the chicken cross the road")
Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and Joey Clift explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of real chickens, and how they might tap into the world's magnetic field to choose to cross a road.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
The magnetic compass of domestic chickens, Gallus gallus (Journal of Experimental Biology)
The magnetic compass of domestic chickens (Communicative & Integrative Biology)
How birds sense the magnetic field of the Earth to help them navigate (University of Oxford News Blog)
The real reason why chickens cross the road (NBC News)
Magnetic Sensing through the Abdomen of the Honey bee (Scientific Reports)
Scientists show that monarch butterflies employ a magnetic compass during migration (UMass Chan Medical School News)
Cows Really Do Have a Magnetic Sixth Sense (Wired)
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