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Nature 421, 27-28 (2 January 2003) | doi:10.1038/421027a
Animal behaviour: The lobster navigators
Thomas Alerstam
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Abstract
When experimentally displaced in geomagnetic space, spiny lobsters act as if to make their way home. This is a fascinating case of navigation by an invertebrate using a magnetic map sense.
Sometimes an idea is so irresistible that it is revisited over and over again. One such is the notion that Earth's magnetic field provides guidance for animal orientation and even true navigation.
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