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Built in compass helps bats find their way home

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Big brown bats use magnetic field to navigate long distance.

Bat mobile: bats can navigate 100 kilometres without using the sun or stars. Credit: Alamy

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Towie, N. Built in compass helps bats find their way home. Nature (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/news061204-9

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