Birds navigate using Earth’s magnetic field, but scientists still don’t know how they actually sense it. Called the holy grail of sensory biology, magnetoreception offers a window into the thousands of unique sensory worlds animals experience.
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Guest: Ed Yong, author of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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