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Published online 7 November 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001109-6
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Animal magnetism
The green sea turtleÕs navigation system has researchers foxed, Jessa Netting reports.
After much tagging and tracking, an international team of researchers from Italy, Sweden, and Wales have concluded that green sea turtles don't have to use magnetic cues to find their way around.
Setting off from the tiny Atlantic island of Ascension for the Brazilian mainland, turtles tagged with six coin-sized magnets to disrupt magnetic fields fared just as well as controls in reaching their destination.
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