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Credit: Photo by Oliver Lindecke Mammals see with their eyes, hear with their ears and smell with their nose. But which sense or organ allows them to orient themselves on their migrations, which sometimes go far beyond their local foraging areas and therefore require an extended ability to navigate? Scientific experiments led by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), published together with Prof. Richard A. Holland (Bangor University, UK) and Dr. Gunārs P?tersons (Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies) now show that the cornea of the eyes is the location of such an important sense in migrating bats. If the cornea is anaesthetised, the otherwise reliable sense of orientation is disturbed while light detection remains unimpaired. The experiment suggests the localisation of a magnetic sense in mammals. The paper is published in the scientific journal

United kingdomBaltic seaOliver lindeckeChristian voigtJan zwillingOssietzky universitLeibniz institute for zooRicharda holland bangor universityHead of the department evolutionary ecologyCommunications biologyWildlife researchDepartment of evolutionary ecologyPtersons latvia university of life sciencesLeibniz instituteBangor universityLatvia university