Nov 2014: The Wiltschkos and magnetic navigation in birds

A sensory ecology bonanza! Professor Wolfgang and Roswita Wiltschko, the husband and wife team who were the first to show that birds have a magnetic sense and use the earth’s magnetic field to orientate, talk about their Scientific Spark. Tanya Kleinhappel tells me how fish sniff out friends from foe. I discover how bats jam their competitor’s sonar. Download the MP3 Bats jam each others echolocation calls when competing for prey Quicklinks: Tanja Kleinhappel's paper on Diet-mediated social networks in shoaling fish Corcoran's and Conner's Science paper - Bats jamming bats: Food competition through sonar interference Wolfgang and Roswitha Wiltschko's research page

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This episode was published on Dec 22, 2014.

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