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Published online 24 November 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news991125-8
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Down Mexico way
As every boy scout knows, you should always take a compass on a long trip. Monarch butterflies, which find their way from their breeding grounds in the northeastern United States and Canada to the warmer mountains of central Mexico every autumn, appear to use their own compasses to guide them.
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